Rich Hill follows 3 families struggling with poverty in small town America. As depressing as it is on the surface the heart is lifted by the spirit of the kids. They aren't stupid, evidenced by their humour and their command of language but how they maintain hopes and dreams in their environment without a plan from hapless parents is beyond me.

Aileen:Life and Death of a serial killer plots the final months of the life of serial killer Aileen Wournos who killed 7 men while hitchhiking and prostituting herself. What set her on this path seems very much pre-ordained by a childhood and a single event - the first killing - which may well have been self defence but triggered what followed. A tragic story and further evidence if it is needed that executions are a barbaric and senseless exercise.

I didn't realise how close Windscale was to a Brit Chernobyl. Underlying reasons purely political so maybe it's best the pricks we have in charge now have no influence over tech like this.

Lip synch out on this but worth a watch. I also didn't realise the UK had the first operational nuclear power station (Calder Hall  - built next door to Windscale). It was built to make weapons grade material for nuclear weapons but it did feed the grid too.

Shouldn't have watched it but did. Jimmy Saville : A British Horror Story

I don't think there is anything more annoying than looking at that cunt's face in the footage of this. They should have dug the bastard up and hung him.

Selina Scott features. Haven't seen her on TV in years. She sits and cringes at her interviews with him.

(OT - she still looks amazing).

It gets worse.

What is really galling is looking back at the Jim'll Fix it show. It really was a great show and such a simple and inspired idea.  It is damned now and can never be recreated which is a shame.

I take a tiny amount of solace in that he was a committed Catholic and so believed he had to face God. It seems his charity work was an attempt to redress the balance but who knows what was going on in that twisted head.  It may just have been a means to gain access.

The real anger comes from the sense of him escaping justice or at least knowing the shame of being found out before he died.

davyK wrote:

I take a tiny amount of solace in that he was a committed Catholic and so believed he had to face God. It seems his charity work was an attempt to redress the balance but who knows what was going on in that twisted head.  It may just have been a means to gain access.

The real anger comes from the sense of him escaping justice or at least knowing the shame of being found out before he died.

He only has to ask for forgiveness

Netflix's 2 -episode Re-examination of John Wayne Gacy including never heard before recordings of his discussions with his defence team. Police , when they are good police, don't earn enough money.

This isn't easy viewing.

iPlayer has a Falklands doc at the minute - a handful of personal stories of guys on the ground. Our Falklands : A Frontline story.  Compelling, sobering, angering, stunning, horrifying, heartbreaking.  Required viewing I'd say.

If the vermin we have in government sent men somewhere to die, I'd back soldiers if they told them to fuck off.

He was also unfortunately the catalyst for the Russian nationalists like Putin and Dugin.

Another gem on iPlayer. Another Storyville.

The tale of George Blake. Double Agent who escaped from Wormwood Scrubs and got to Russia.

Genuine international tale - Holland, Egypt, Korea, Lebanon,..... working for MI6 - leaking info like a tap to the KGB.

What's it called?

Cheers.

Watching Trauma Zone on iPlayer at the minute. Couple of hours to go.

It's worth watching just for the sheer spectacle. That part of the world is truly beautiful in its desolate wildernesses. But to see the bold and bizarre happenings in that part of the world (tanks firing on the parliament in Moscow at the behest of a pre-vodka-soaked-era Yeltsin) at the time is fascinating - I can't take my eyes off it.  The story is entirely told with footage with brief captions and some short snatches of newsreel interviews. It's superbly done.

The people are simply magnificent. They deserve so much more than what they get from their leadership.

But. It's also a lesson in the effects of corruption - and it's not a huge leap to equate the siphoning of public assets and money of 90s Russia with the behaviour we see today with the weasel gang we have in charge. There was a jolting echo with today when a caption appeared over footage of a time of enormous inflation that people could not afford food and heating.

It's on a different scale but it was a jolt.

Heh.