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Greed Game – The Super Rich

Greed Game – The Super Rich

| July 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill Presenter – Robert Preston Tweet

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Cambodia’s Orphan Business – People And Power

Cambodia’s Orphan Business – People And Power

| July 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

Increasing numbers of tourists including well-intentioned volunteers keen to help war-torn Cambodia are volunteering in the country’s orphanages. Volumes of research around the world have shown that orphanage care is associated with long-term psychological concerns. People & Power investigates the concept of “voluntourism” which is inadvertently doing more harm than good to Cambodian children, as [...]

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Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends – Black Nationalism

Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends – Black Nationalism

| July 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

American black nationalist groups have been branded anti-Semitic, homophobic, misogynist and racist by the mainstream press. Louis Theroux goes to Harlem in New York to meet its proponents. Theroux meets the Reverend Al Sharpton, the main point of contact in the black nationalist movement. Theroux also meets Khalid Abdul Muhammad, dubbed by the media ‘the [...]

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Idi Amin Dada Autobiography – Uganda Discovery

Idi Amin Dada Autobiography – Uganda Discovery

| July 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

Idi Amin Dada (c. 1925[A] — 16 August 2003) was a military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King’s African Rifles, in 1946, and eventually held the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army before taking power in the military coup of [...]

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Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends – Indian Gurus

Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends – Indian Gurus

| July 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

Louis Theroux travels to India to witness Westerners seeking enlightenment. In Goa he meets 57-year old American astrologer Deepak who studies meditation. He moves on to meet Mike, who is a follower of Swami Ganapathi Sachchidananda, and Amma who claims spiritual powers through hugging people. Tweet

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Gaddafi – Our Best Villain

Gaddafi – Our Best Villain

| July 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

This insightful essay-style documentary by Frenchman Antoine Vitkine puts current events into perspective by examining the motivations behind the actions of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a man whose peculiar appearance belies savvy negotiation skills. Born in a tent in the Libyan desert, this Arab nationalist gained notoriety at 27 after toppling King Idris I. [...]

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Louis Theroux, and the Nazi’s

Louis Theroux, and the Nazi’s

| July 7, 2012 | 0 Comments

Producer: BBC, Stuart Cabb, Louis Theroux (presenter) Theroux always tackles touchy subjects, sometimes with interviews that make your skin crawl. His interview with Joe Jackson, and another with the Westboro Baptist Church were gob-smacking television. Upon his return, Theroux will be looking at the White Aryan Resistance movement in America, the KKK and Nazi’s who [...]

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Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists

| July 5, 2012 | 0 Comments

Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of the most sensitive and disputed areas of the West Bank, especially those with a spiritual significance dating back to the Bible. Throughout [...]

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