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Museums in Quarantine, pt 1 of 4
Alistair Sooke bigs up the Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern

Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe. Very enjoyable

The Pacific War in Color - The Enemy Underground
Smithsonian Channel 2018



Tells the story of the Battle for Saipan in June and July of 1944. The Americans were island hopping across the pacific and had reached the Northern Marianas one of which was Saipan. These islands were strategically important because Japan tself could be bombed from the island airstrips. The battle was typically brutal with the defenders well dug in and usually fighting to the death. The US flamethrower tanks were used for the first time and after nearly a month of fighting the last few thousand Japanese soldiers committed the biggest banzai charge of the war. Over three thousand American Marines and soldiers were killed and of the 32,000 Japanese, 24,000 were killed in action and another 5,000 killed themselves.

The Smithsonian documentaries are of a high standard and apparently much of the colour film footage of the battle had not been seen before. The burnt and butchered corpses are even more horrific in colour and there's also on awful clip of a women throwing her child off a cliff. She then looks at the camera and jumps herself in order to avoid the atrocities that the Japanese had told the natives would befall them if they were captured by the Americans.

Just over a year later B-29s from the next door island of Tinian would drop the two atom bombs which brought to an end the Second World War.

Stargirl Ep 1 “Pilot” Season 1

Peter Sellers - A State of Comic Ecstasy
Somewhat too polished, the man was a crackpot. No archive of Milligan or even Monkhouse is a mistake, and Steve "fawning creep" Coogan isn't really an adequate filler.

Star Trek Voyager Ep 16 “Learning Curve” Season 1 Finale

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(13-02-2020 17:23 )Doddle Wrote:  Britain's Lost Railways 2.1 - Matlock to Buxton
Rob Bell returns, with the title presumably altered because he uses a helicopter and a bicycle as well as doing some walking. Seemed more about the factual stuff like a lime kiln and a quarry than the actual railway line.

BLR - unsure what episode - NW Wales
Bangor to Caernarvon, then down to Llanberis and finally Snowdonia (again).

At last, ep 2.2 - the Durham coalfields
From Sunderland on one old line, via Beamish, and ending on a 2nd line at Hartlepool. Glad I could finally catch up with this one, but I still don't expect a 3rd series.

Supergirl Ep 18 “The Missing Link” Season 5.

(20-05-2020 21:29 )Doddle Wrote:  Museums in Quarantine, pt 1 of 4
Alistair Sooke bigs up the Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern

MiQ, pt 2 of 4
Simon Schama talks about the young Rembrandt exhibition at the Ashmolean (though in audio only)

Harley Quinn Ep 3 “So You Need a Crew?” Season 1