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What's currently good on the BBC iPlayer?

red & green said:
2 storyville films
Undercover OAP - really lovely film - elderly man is hired to go undercover in a care home in Chile after allegations from relatives of one of the people in the home ,of abuse and theft of their relative - this sounds depressing but it’s a lovely film

Collective - Romanian documentary about journalists initially investigating a fire in a music venue - reiterated to me the disappearance of investigative journalism here and the power of their investigation.
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Undercover OAP is a real treat and I think Collectiv is one of the best investigative documentaries of recent years.

Would also recommend this.

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BBC Four - Storyville, Final Account

The last living generation of everyday people to participate in the Third Reich.
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Part 2 said:
Undercover OAP is a real treat and I think Collectiv is one of the best investigative documentaries of recent years.

Would also recommend this.

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC Four - Storyville, Final Account

The last living generation of everyday people to participate in the Third Reich.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Some of those people still saying they had no idea what was going on in the camps. 70 years on and they still won't admit their own failings
 
sojourner said:
I am actually quite liking The Responder, although some of those accents are fucking dire. There's enough bloody Scouse actors around, why don't they just use them?? Martin Freeman's accent is really quite good though. I was worried it would be a bit too sympathetic to the filth's point of view, and while there is some of that, it's not ALL like that. Watchable, anyway, if not brilliant.
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I really quite liked The Responder, much to my surprise. I think it's the first time I've seen Freeman do Proper Acting and he was pretty spellbinding. As a drama it wasn't really anything I haven't seen before... but put together uncommonly well making it better than the sum of its parts. The entire story is really quite dark and while sometimes it felt like almost parody of the "embittered cop going through some shit, let's see what else we can pile on" it never got too outlandish for me and it's well leavened by being completely steeped in that deliciously grim sense of pitch-black humour that I forever associate with liverpool.

I was also very impressed with his accent given that I don't think he's from the north west. I think most of the main cast members at least are actually from the region (Carson's mum from Doctor Zhivago is definitely a 'pudlian) and quite a few from warrington too although they did veer close to scouse parody at times. Wikipedia beckons...
 
Some of The Responder was filmed in my fave local park! I remember parts of it being sealed off last year. Ace seeing it, blurred as it was 😄
 
The Nilsen Files, less a documentary about Dennis Nilsen, this focuses on his victims and puts the case in the wider context of homophobia in the UK in the 80s. The papers basically blamed the victims and advances made by the gay movement and it meant the police didn't follow up on vital clues to catch Nilsen much earlier. Very good and it brought back a lot of memories, the year Nilsen was caught and went to trial was when I moved to London. As the Stephen Port case showed, not that much had changed three decades later when it comes to institutional homophobia in the police force.
 
Reno said:
The Nilsen Files, less a documentary about Dennis Nilsen, this focuses on his victims and puts the case in the wider context of homophobia in the UK in the 80s. The papers basically blamed the victims and advances made by the gay movement and it meant the police didn't follow up on vital clues to catch Nilsen much earlier. Very good and it brought back a lot of memories, the year Nilsen was caught and went to trial was when I moved to London. As the Stephen Port case showed, not that much had changed three decades later when it comes to institutional homophobia in the police force.
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I’ve just finished watching it. It’s great. Pulls few punches in exposing the cuntiness of police and press. I also plan to recommend it to my A level students who are just starting to study This is England and Trainspotting, as there’s loads of really useful and evocative social and political context around the main story.
 
Reno said:
The Nilsen Files, less a documentary about Dennis Nilsen, this focuses on his victims and puts the case in the wider context of homophobia in the UK in the 80s. The papers basically blamed the victims and advances made by the gay movement and it meant the police didn't follow up on vital clues to catch Nilsen much earlier. Very good and it brought back a lot of memories, the year Nilsen was caught and went to trial was when I moved to London. As the Stephen Port case showed, not that much had changed three decades later when it comes to institutional homophobia in the police force.
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Four Lives was on BBC, a dramatisation of the Stephen Port case, and yes, lots of casual homophobia from the cops in that, assumptions that they were all on drugs and it was their lifestyle that got them killed, rather than police homophobia that failed to catch a killer and save their lives.

Much of Four Lives was filmed in Greater Manchester rather than Barking, where most of the real life events occurred. One of my neighbour's flats was the location for filming the landlord turned friend of the young eastern European lad who was murdered. My flat 'auditioned' for the role, but didn't get the part as they preferred a ground floor flat for technical/lighting reasons and my flat's on the second floor.
 
sojourner said:
Would have thought it contained too much 'victim mentality' for your tastes.
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Nope.

And for the record that isn’t a view I either agree with or hold. It’s a view which others like that tosspot in Downing St - not me - hold and that’s what I was referring to at the time.

I’ve actually got a lot of time for Liverpool and was up there a few weeks ago and will be back again in the autumn. I don’t expect this post will change your view, anyway I’ve said my piece now :)
 
Elpenor said:
And for the record that isn’t a view I either agree with or hold. It’s a view which others like that tosspot in Downing St - not me - hold and that’s what I was referring to at the time.

I’ve actually got a lot of time for Liverpool and was up there a few weeks ago and will be back again in the autumn. I don’t expect this post will change your view, anyway I’ve said my piece now :)
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See, if you'd said that at the time that everyone was shocked at what you said, and slagging you off, I might have believed you. But you didn't, so I don't.
 
Watching Chloe on iPlayer.

It's really good, it's really compelling, and yet emotionally quite hard to watch in places.
 
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ohmyliver said:
Watching Chloe on iPlayer.

It's really good, it's really compelling, and yet emotionally quite hard to watch in places.
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Have now finished watching it - thank you again for the reminder, it's excellent IMO.

It doesn't reveal too much at a time, it's done really well and is very much to my taste.

Would recommend.
 
sojourner said:
Storyville: Hillsong Church, God Goes Viral.

:eek: there's one in Liverpool!
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Saw that a couple of months ago. The church is risible and also fascistic. If you are like me you like to watch a programme to get annoyed. I recommend. The lead characters are thoroughly despicable. Desperately hip. I reckon the new dictatorship will be driven by religious analytica and conspiracy theories.

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