How come I've never heard of the long running documentary series Unreported World? It's apparently on Channel 4 in England, has been around for 20 years, and at least lately, posts new content on Youtube weekly. It's the English Foreign Correspondent, by the looks, and probably preceded it?
Anyway, I only learnt of it because a recent episode popped up on my Samsung Youtube app recommendations, Google knowing (of course) that I watch a lot of Asian content.
Here's the episode, about a money hungry Buddhist sect/cult the Dhammakaya Foundation in Thailand, which at least has the coolest, UFO looking temple thingy I have ever seen (this is a screenshot from the start of the video):
Looks like the start of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 version, and if the flying saucer had a Nazi reception committee.)
Here's the video itself:
Surprised I hadn't heard about it before.
On another note Steve. Me and you were brought up on excellent BBC television that gave us a cocoon of trust and low key safety, with a few huge omissions, that allowed us to grow up without a sense of trauma. Like a good parent allowing kids to be kids as long as possible.
ReplyDeleteThats all gone now. The BBC is full of shit. Just to let you remember how wonderful the BBC was in the old days, let me remind you with this video. We don't have anything like this kind of excellence going gown any more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuumnjJWFO4&list=PLO-wxIy9sHyZsh6B56YoiHYbf9IAQGo3c&index=3