Stuff to watch

[andyfuller]

Bomb Squad on Iplayer, second part is on BBC 1 tonight - worth a watch as it puts thing into perspective.

[andyfuller]

This guy is awesome at dancing (also a great tune):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXO-jKks ... ture=share

[Groovyelms]

This is sports Gambling big time!! what a great accent he has too.....presenting Billy Walker
Groovy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6FAUQ6S ... detailpage

[superfrank]

Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Were_Good/

'watched this last night and it was good.

Ian Hislop presents an entertaining and provocative film about the colourful Victorian financiers whose spectacular philanthropy shows that banking wasn't always associated with greed or self-serving financial recklessness.

Victorian bankers achieved wealth on a scale never envisaged by previous generations, but many of them were far from comfortable about their new-found riches, which caused them intense soul-searching amidst furious national debate about the moral purpose of money and its potential to corrupt.

Like so many other Victorian bankers, Samuel Gurney was a Quaker. Banking and its rewards seemed at odds with a faith that valued modest simplicity, but Gurney's wealth helped the work of his sister, prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, who is immortalised on today's five-pound note.

Self-made millionaire George Peabody was a merchant banker who made an enormous donation to London housing. 150 years on, his housing estates still provide accommodation to 50,000 Londoners.

Angela Burdett-Coutts became an overnight celebrity after she inherited the enormous Coutts fortune. With her love of small dogs and her vast stash, she could have been the Paris Hilton of her day. Instead, she went on to become a great philanthropist.

Perhaps the richest of them all was Natty Rothschild, who tried not just to ensure that his personal wealth did good, but that his bank's did too.

Deploying his customary mix of light touch and big ideas, Ian champions these extraordinary and generous individuals. Along the way, he meets Dr Giles Fraser, until his recent, dramatic resignation canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, chairman of the FSA Lord Turner, philanthropic financier the current Lord Rothschild, historian A N Wilson and chief rabbi Lord Sacks.

[Iron]

Looks interesting:

Your Money and How They Spend It - BBC 2, 9 PM, Wed 23rd Nov

Nick Robinson runs a shrewd rule over the UK’s national accounts, breaking down the maths and the politics into bite-sized chunks. He sails a dinghy, dances a waltz with pensioners, marches with Durham miners’ bands, and so on – anything to distract us from the fact that this is really a programme about numbers.

But in the end, it’s the numbers that keep hitting you over the head: did you know about the hi-tech regional fire control centres that were built at a cost of £469 million but stand empty? Or the NHS IT project – a colossal £6 billion over budget, and counting?

About this programme

Part one of two. Nick Robinson explores how governments collect and spend tax money. He explores who receives what funding and why, investigates whether any of the money is wasted and finds out about the pressure politicians are constantly under to authorise further spending, as well as the difficulties they face in resisting. Includes interviews with senior Westminster figures and voters from around Britain.

[superfrank]

in the interests of preventing my blood from boiling I think I'll give that a miss. i stopped watching Question Time many years ago for the same reason - wretched programme.

[Iron]

It's up to you, but I don't think this program will take the 'public sector inefficiency is a right wing myth' line you're expecting it to take.

Have a look at this article Nick Robinson wrote in the Telegraph, ahead of his programme: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/fina ... es-it.html

Jeff

in the interests of preventing my blood from boiling I think I'll give that a miss. i stopped watching Question Time many years ago for the same reason - wretched programme.

[convoysur]

documentary on manor house stables ,tom bascombe
http://www.manorhousestables.com/videotour.html#Equidia

[superfrank]

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - Review Of The Year
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _the_Year/

[Euler]

Channel 5 - 1/3rd of the way through but the Film 21 is now on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_%282008_film%29

[herbie]

the simpsons.....will tell you everything you need to know

[CaerMyrddin]

I watched the first 2 and can already recomend it, grat stuff:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1358383/

[superfrank]

Born Bankrupt - Sky News tonight at 7.30

Jeff Randall looks at the financial obligations inherited by a child born in Britain today.

good man Jeff Randall and one of the few in mainstream economic journalism that gets it.

[Euler]

I recently joined Netflix and there are some good documentaries on there. Recommended.

[superfrank]

I recently joined Netflix and there are some good documentaries on there. Recommended.

hope you don't own their shares!