This sort of banal programme-making is key to what changed in the BBC from the later 1990's onwards. Many younger people simply have no idea of the quality of documentaries that Brutain used to … (View Post)

Yes. He's getting better and more mature, but ironically not signed up by the BBC any more as a standard-bearer, which sums up the current fear of subtlety and complexity. (View Post)

Michael Palin's Iraq is currently on Channel 5, which, not that widely known, is some of his best ever work. Mature and complex, and reminiscent of the older British documentary tradition. (View Post)

I have very little time for any of the indignation surroundimg this story. The Telegraph is literally the butler to vast and properly organised tax evasion. (View Post)

As we mentiomed a few weeks ago, it's notable that in yougov surveys the generations that were in their teens and ' twenties in the 60s and 90s are more nostalgic about those decades than o… (View Post)