My big worries
Bonekickers (BBC1); Burn Up (BBC2)
The other big thing I worry about, apart from Christian fundamentalism, is Climate Change. Has anyone else heard about this major threat to world civilisation? I don’t think it has been given nearly enough attention — so, well done the BBC, writer Simon Beaufoy and a cast including Rupert Penry-Jones for giving it the prominence it deserves in the two-part thriller Burn Up (BBC2, Wednesday, Friday)!
Here was a drama that didn’t pull its punches. The oil industry, we learnt, is corrupt, dirty, evil, profit-obsessed and quite incredibly oily. Environmentalists are brave, dignified, selfless, but often kinda sexy too. And they need to be tough, what with the oil industry’s typically evil tactic of smearing them at every turn — even bumping them off if it has to — just for the crime of telling the truth. I was so upset and moved and overwhelmed that after 40 minutes I had to stop watching.
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Gil
July 27th, 2008 9:18amSuperb! And we STILL pay the licence fee for this...like sheep.