The Day Britain Stopped TV - The Poughkeepsie Tapes 2007 - Pimp 2010 - Man Bites Dog 1992 - Spitting Image TV - Dark Side of the Moon TV - Legend of Bigfoot 1976
On 19th December 2003 the failings of Britain’s transport system were exposed as never before. Decades of neglect led to a day of disaster. The Day Britain Stopped, BBC 2003
‘I really believe there’s no way we could have foreseen a chain reaction.’ ibid. official
The collapse of Britain’s entire transport system. ibid.
I think torturing and murdering turned him on. And I think these tapes are something of a homemade porn film. The Poughkeepsie Tapes 2007 starring Stacy Chbosky & Ben Messmer & Bobbi Sue Luther & Samantha Robson & Ivar Brogger & Ron Harper & Iris Bahr et al, director John Eric Dowdle, Felton Lewis FBI profiler
There are somewhere between 25 and 50 active series killers in America alone. ibid. geezer
They had been raped post-mortem. ibid. mortician
Woody, a Soho hustler and fixer, agreed to be filmed for a week. Pimp 2010 starring Robert Cavanah & Billy Boyd & Martin Compston & Gemma Chan & Corey Johnson & Scarlett Alice Johnson & Barbara Nedeljakova & Robert Fucilla & Danny Dyer & Wil Johnson, director Robert Cavanah
Welcome to the Pole-Cat Club. ibid. young Stan
I’ve just finished ballasting the body. Which means you fill it with things you have. Man Bites Dog 1992 starring Benoit Poelvoorde & Remy Belvaux & Jenny Drye & Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert & Malou Madou & Andre Bonzel et al, directors Remy Belvaux & Andre Bonzel & Benoit Poelvoorde
Following last week’s controversial documentary on Mother Teresa, tonight Channel 4 are proud to present The Queen Mother: She’s a Witch. See her collecting ingredients for her steaming cauldron, see her casting an evil spell, and see her taking a goat away for sacrifice. Next week Channel 4 is proud to present Lassie was a Nazi. Spitting Image s17e1, ITV 1994
It was Wernher von Braun who first realised the race to the moon must be entertaining. A show. After several meetings with Walt Disney an idea took shape. Only Hollywood, the dream factory itself, could transform a dull rocket launch that no-one took any notice of into a mega-production. And Stanley Kubrick was about to convince the last doubters. The famous director, working closely with NASA, had started to shoot 2001 A Space Odyssey. Dark Side of the Moon, Arte 2002
I was up-track in the mountains and I found these tracks: they look much like human footprints but they were eighteen inches long, six and a half across the ball of the foot, five and a half at the heel. Legend of Bigfoot, 1976