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As 'A' company deploy to Afghanistan for their six-month tour of duty, the training is finally over for Darren and Andrew and they get their first taste of combat. Shown in October 2011: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015j23x

With two recruits now graduated from training and preparing to join their battalion of 110 men, the group are moving closer to combat on the Afghan frontline. What drives them to keep going when they know more than 380 soldiers have died Afghanistan with 1,700 seriously injured? How are their families taking the stress? Shown in September 2011: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0155xgt Next episode: ru...

The first five weeks of basic training is comple and the recruits return to Catterick to complete the rest of the course: hand-to-hand combat with their bayonet knife, how to shoot live ammunition, and how their bodies react to exposure to CS gas. With hundreds of British soldiers killed fighting in Afghanistan, why do young men want to join the army? Shown in September 2011: www.bbc.co.uk/prog...

With hundreds of British soldiers killed fighting in Afghanistan, why do young men want to join the army? This documentary series follows new recruits as they start a 26 week course at Catterick Infantry Training Centre, from day one basic training, through to frontline combat in Helmand. Shown in September 2011: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014grxm Second episode: ruclips.net/video/QWZfgUGwDB8/ви...

Programme trailer from BBC3 in September 2011. Longer trailer version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo6pM... Full programme: ruclips.net/video/YGU8jYD2grE/видео.html More info: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014grxm

Topical satire and comedy from New Zealand sometime in 1991. Prominent personalities and things of the day being mocked included kids TV, Anita McNaught, Rachel Hunter, the cast and writers of Shark in the Park, rugby pundits (John McBeth in particular) Ruth Richardson, and most TV news presenters. Cast: David McPhail, Alison Wall, Mark Wright, Rima Te Wiata, Jon Gadsby, Rawiri Paratene, Madele...

Topical satire and comedy, from 19 May 1993, shown on TV3, New Zealand. Prominent personalities of the day being mocked included Maggie Barry, Pam Corkery, the writers and cast of Shortland Street, Grant Fox, Kerry Smith, Tim Shadbolt, the Royals, Bill Ralston and others. Cast: Liz Mullane, Peter Rowley, Alison Wall, Mark Wright, Willy de Wit, Jon Gadsby. Writers included: AK Grant, George Spoo...

Under the gunge tank this week are John Virgo and Willie Thorne of Snooker fame. The lyric game has four Elvis impersonators, Elvis Brooks, a Gateshead fitness instructor and his friend Elvis Milligan, Elvis Wilkins from the Royal Navy, and Elvis Crooke who is a bar manager from Southampton. 'Wait till I get you home' features Roger and Alison Howse from Plymouth and their daughter Michelle. NT...

The Lyric game features Eastenders (Susan Tully & Michelle Gayle) versus Birds of a Feather (Linda Robson & Pauline Quirke) In the gunge tank is Charlotte McGinn (who's been set up by her mother!) 'Wait till I get you home' with Patricia and Michael O'Neill and their daughter Jenny. NTV is in Essex at the home of Claire and Tracy and their family. Mary and Arthur are playing the Honeymoon game....

Paul Coia and Richard Whiteley are in the gunge tank. The Lyric game features the Blues Brothers and Blues Sisters. 'Wait till I get you home' with Fred and Alice Bull and their daughter Karen. NTV is in Hampshire at the home of Sue and Bob. The Gotcha goes to Nicholas Parsons. Kathy Taylor is grabbing the grand. Cameos from Michael Winner and Dennis Quilley. This episode was broadcast on Chann...

Charlie Brooker vents on how the news media's poor handling of issues is a gift to those seeking publicity. Anjem Choudary from the, since banned, group Islam4UK knows this more than most. (From BBC Newswipe 2010)

Investigative Journalist, Heather Brooke on anonymity in news reports, and why secret sources are unaccountable for what they say. Examples from Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent man shot by police, where police lied to try to cover up their mistakes. In 2006 in Forest Gate, London, the Metropolitan Police spent £2million in a botched raid on the house of Mohammed Abdul Kahar and Abdul Koyai...

Topical satire and comedy, from 21 July 1992, shown on TV3, New Zealand. Prominent personalities of the day being mocked included Tukoroirangi Morgan, (then a TVNZ journalist), Kerry Smith, Alison Holst, the cast of Shortland Street, and most TV news presenters. Cast: Mark Wright, Alison Wall, Jon Gadsby, Rawiri Paratene, Liz Mullane, Willy de Wit, David McPhail. This is episode 3 of the 1992 s...

Contributions from: Rory Bremner, Contessa Maria, Maxine Schnall, George Hamilton, Dr Rachel Grant, "How to flirt", Greta Scacchi. Plus at the end, Margarita Pracatan sings '99 Miles from LA". In the ad breaks from NZ television: Mitre 10, Celine Dion's Colour of my life album, KMart, Countrywide Bank, Claratyne, Firestone Direct, Sony Handycam, TV One trailer for the Edinburgh Military Tattoo,...

Christmas Issues 25 December 1993

Saturday Night Clive - Imelda Marcos, Blind Date, William Shatner, Mel Brooks