09-08-2012, 07:43 PM
Seamus Coogan Wrote:Peter have you seen the BBC documentary on it that they banned? Probably the BBC's finest hour.....that and the odd Curtis doco. I wonder what JK makes of it all, in his opinion was it one of the better things the BBC did? Was anybody fired over it? I didn't know Gasner had a book on it damn it, I should have known that.
Well Seamus, I've written about it many times on DPF.
I was actually working as a Special Assistant to the Number Two in BBC Television at the time it was broadcast.
The series had slipped under the London radar because it was an independent production for BBC Wales.
"The Man in the Mac" didn't know the series was even in production until he saw it on BBC2 and vomited his G&T over his cherubic boy love.
There are challenges though.
Here are a couple:
Oswald Le Winter - fancy deciphering the pseudonym and the message?
What is the link between Allan Francovich and Gunter Russbacher?
And who is the link between Allan Francovich and Gunter Russbacher?
Insightful answers only, on a Daniele Ganser postcard.....
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war