Brief Encounters, Canals and Airports.

  • 17 years ago
1. Brief Encounters: Do we still find it moving over 60 years on?
2. Two Cents on canals and cuts in their funding
3. Hero and Zero of the Day: an Independent journalist and a racist conspiracist
4. BAA injunction on protestors: their side of the story

Clip 1. As part of the season of classic re-releases of British films, the Culture Clash panel discuss their reactions to two very different productions, Brief Encounters and Goldfinger. In this clip, the panellists talk about their reactions to watching Brief Encounters in the cinema and whether it changed their opinion of the film.
Clip 2. In the absence of Donal Blaney, Ben Duckworth takes over the presenting duties on Up Front and in his two cents attacks Defra for cutting the budget of British Waterways.
Clip 3. Donal Blaney may be away but replacement host Ben Duckworth continues his feature Hero and Zero and highlights a debate between Joan Smith and Andrew Marr and also condemns the media's failure to properly cover the story of a former BNP candidate who stored 22 chemical compounds at his Lancashire home
Clip 4. As interest in the BAA's attempted injunction on protestors gathering at Heathrow airport continues to increase and Mayor Ken says the organisation "must be out of their skull", Scott Colvin, a Public Affairs Consultant, who works with BAA, explains their reasons for pursuing the action.

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