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| Rooted - Series 2 - Channel 5 (UK) | |
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SUNDAY
TIMES “It says a lot about how topsy-turvy today’s
television is that you learn more about non-Anglo Saxon cultures and non-Christian
religions from this one series for children than you are likely to from
a year of peak-time adult fare.” (8-9 May 2004)
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY “Ostensibly for children, but equally fascinating for their parents” (12-13 June 2004) OBSERVER “Possibly Five’s best documentary series at present” (19-20 June 2004) |
| Karzan's Brothers - Escape from the Safe Haven - BBC1 | |
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THE
DAILY TELEGRAPH Inside Story (BBC1) - Karzan's Brothers.
A real-life story of Le Carre thriller proportions.... (TV choice
of 15/10/96)
THE INDEPENDENT Inside Story (BBC1) followed the people-smuggling trail, out of the Kurdish safe haven and through a maze of countries in which the probity of the border guards was flexible enough to permit passage. It was a crooked road in all senses, with cheats and exploiters at every turn, and it was striking to see it. (Review by Thomas Sutcliffe) |
| Rebels of the forgotten World - Channel 4 (UK) | |
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Ramos
Horta (Peace Nobel Price Winner 1998) Speech before Royal Institute of International Affairs: London, 23 April 1996: ... Ladies and gentlemen, if you have a chance I would advise you to see an excellent documentary by Claudio von Planta on the West Papuan struggle, entitled Rebels of a Forgotten World. The documentary records the colonization of West Papua by its new colonizer, Indonesia, and decades of brutalities and destruction of their environment and wealth, the threat to their survival as a people by a strategy of population transfer. The problem of West Papua will not go away and the West Papuans are learning to be more effective both on the home front and internationally and will pose an even greater problem for Jakarta than East Timor... |
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| The Cuba Connection - HTV (UK) | |
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VENUE
- Bristol's Magazine 16/05/97 (by Phil Johnson) ... The West Story on HTV last week featured an extraordinary journey whereby Geoff, a South African Mont-type, sailed to Cuba from Portishead in a rusty old tub with a crew of variously damaged and deranged old salts... it was a fantastic film and if you missed it, get on to HTV and demand a repeat... The voyage from the Cadbury to Cuba was one of the best programmes I've seen all year, bar none, and the crew were great too. |