He took several single shots of the same face- and the soldier never blinked or moved, when the documentary makers called the Major who is now well-retired and who was in charge of the marines that day he said that they have reunions every year and is still in contact with many of his soldiers but no-one has found any trace of that particular one since.

''Why are you doing this to me?''



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I once had to sit through a [iwhole episode[/i at my parents' house. Never again.

I always envisage him as the product of an unnatural relationship between Harry Worth and Nellie Pledge

Had the same experience two Xmas's ago.

Staying at my mates in Manchester and he insisted we watched the Xmas special ( managed to avoid the series).

What a load of fooking tripe.

Garbage!

It's not even that good.

Whoever is responsible for it must've thought no one was old enough to remember Old Mother Riley

I'm not.

Sounds like television was on a roll last night.



Prof Alice Roberts was in fine form on Horizon : What Makes Us Human?



Sadly BBC2 pitched it up against the squawking mob that is The Apprentice, so it won't have drawn anything like the audience it deserved.

I used to like her when she was on [iCoast[/i.

Unlike Nicholas Crane who has an amazing ability to dull even the most interesting of topics and always ended every sentence with a s l o w i n g EMPHASIS.

Don't get me started on his trademark umbrella sticking out of his rucksack ... big nancy.

Not available on iPlayer yet (possibly ever) but last night's In The Loop was classic Ianucci, Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker and James Gandolfini as Lt Gen George Miller

Watched the Piper Alpha documentary, Fire In The Night, that I'd recorded from last week.

Very good if not seen.

The survivors interviewed (only 61 out of 22icon_cool.gif mainly Jocks and Geordies (industrial gypsies), talked movingly of the nights events about the friends and workmates who never made it through that night.

Admittedly, you'd never be the same again after an event such as that, would you?



Also watched last weeks, The Murder Trial on C4.

Found it very engrossing from a layperson's perspective although our resident lawyer will probably dispute this if he viewed it.