I might be wrong, but this sounds awfully similar to one of Marrs earlier programs "The History of Modern Britain", in particular the episode devoted to Thatcher.
Bloody hell, how long has this been sitting around? Some of the interviews seem to be about ten years old, judging from the picture quality.
BIB - A very long time I would imagine - Mrs Thatcher has been ill for years and these programmes will have been recorded and ready for showing when the time came. You can be sure that everything is in place, recorded and ready for whatever high profile person pops off any time soon (or certainly the next few years!).
Keep your eye out for the dodgey stuff the government sweep under the carpet while this is goin on.
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So any specific stuff in mind then? Put it all out here and we can all check back later in the year/decade/century and see just what 'dodgey stuff' was swept under that carpet while we were distracted by the death of Mrs/Baroness Thatcher.
BIB - A very long time I would imagine - Mrs Thatcher has been ill for years and these programmes will have been recorded and ready for showing when the time came. You can be sure that everything is in place, recorded and ready for whatever high profile person pops off any time soon (or certainly the next few years!).
Yeah, I reckon at least a decade. There's stuff that's obviously archive footage, which is to be expected, but there's a lot of old footage masquerading as new that has to be years old.
Interesting views from Neil Kinnock on Arthur Scargill.
IMO, Scargill has a lot more to answer for than Thatcher (and I ain't a fan). He sold those miners down the river for his personal political ends. Tragic what he did to them, frankly.
IMO, Scargill has a lot more to answer for than Thatcher (and I ain't a fan). He sold those miners down the river for his personal political ends. Tragic what he did to them, frankly.
So true! But who would want to go down these mines today or even the last decade? That was real hard and dirty work - where are all the would-be miners today?
I watched this and either it is a repeated or broad sections of it were culled from another show. In particular, the commentary over the clip of Thatcher using the 'royal we' is definitely a cut and paste job about a documentary from a few years back. I guess they cobbled the show together from old footage and older documentaries. They probably had it 'on ice' along with her obit. I understand that the all the major new outlets have a stock of obituaries and documentaries about high profile figures ready to go when the time comes.
So any specific stuff in mind then? Put it all out here and we can all check back later in the year/decade/century and see just what 'dodgey stuff' was swept under that carpet while we were distracted by the death of Mrs/Baroness Thatcher.
Will do.. Oh by the way. I take it you still get your world news from the BBC & ITN.. Oh dear :rolleyes:
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Yeh,noticed that vstraight away.I know the Beeb has to be prepared,but with poor Andrew still recovering it does come across a bit,,mawkish.
If you watched the series you'll know the episode i'm on about
BIB - A very long time I would imagine - Mrs Thatcher has been ill for years and these programmes will have been recorded and ready for showing when the time came. You can be sure that everything is in place, recorded and ready for whatever high profile person pops off any time soon (or certainly the next few years!).
:cool:
So any specific stuff in mind then? Put it all out here and we can all check back later in the year/decade/century and see just what 'dodgey stuff' was swept under that carpet while we were distracted by the death of Mrs/Baroness Thatcher.
Yeah, I reckon at least a decade. There's stuff that's obviously archive footage, which is to be expected, but there's a lot of old footage masquerading as new that has to be years old.
IMO, Scargill has a lot more to answer for than Thatcher (and I ain't a fan). He sold those miners down the river for his personal political ends. Tragic what he did to them, frankly.
So true! But who would want to go down these mines today or even the last decade? That was real hard and dirty work - where are all the would-be miners today?
In Romania?
Interesting programme.
Will do.. Oh by the way. I take it you still get your world news from the BBC & ITN.. Oh dear :rolleyes: