Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Did you catch the "Eichmann Show" last night BBC2 9pm?

A dramatisation, including actual footage, of the Eichmann trial in 1960 including very harrowing holocaust images.

A very impressive programme indeed, powerful stuff

I caught up with this over the weekend and I have to say the programme itself was appalling.

The archive footage of the actual trial was, as you say, harrowing. Today we're fully aware of the horrors of the death camps but to think that this was the first that most people heard of what happened there, and saw the photos and film, the effect on people must have been tremendous.

But the drama side was dreadful - a clunky, ham-fisted script that jarred all the way through. Martin Freeman with his fresh-off-the-shelf US accent. It would have been far, far better to just commission a 90 minute documentary about the trial.

In complete contrast to this was the programme on BBC Four last night - the first half of the super-epic (nine hour) Holocaust documentary Shoah. A succession of eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust, it's a good job I was also recording it as it's not something I think I could go through in one sitting.

I really appreciate this post Andrew.

[kinboshi]

I'm fascinatedby the comet landing. After 25 years of planning and10 years of travelling at a speed of 40000mph, landing craft Philae managed to touch down on a target just 2.5 miles wide  and 4 billion miles away.

Apparently, after the first landing it bounced back up.  (I was going to say bounced back into the air but I don't think there is any air, come to think of it, there probably isn't any up either) 

The bounce lasted for over two hours, because the gravitational pull of the comet is so weak. What I want to know is, with do little gravity, what holds the mother ship Rosetta in orbit?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hunt-for-lost-comet-lander-hangs-in-the-balance/

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I'm fascinatedby the comet landing. After 25 years of planning and10 years of travelling at a speed of 40000mph, landing craft Philae managed to touch down on a target just 2.5 miles wide  and 4 billion miles away.

Apparently, after the first landing it bounced back up.  (I was going to say bounced back into the air but I don't think there is any air, come to think of it, there probably isn't any up either) 

The bounce lasted for over two hours, because the gravitational pull of the comet is so weak. What I want to know is, with do little gravity, what holds the mother ship Rosetta in orbit?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hunt-for-lost-comet-lander-hangs-in-the-balance/

Tough call.

[tikay]

What caused the dustbin lorry crash?

What happened to the tilted ship?

I need closure.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/27/damaged-luxury-cars-worth-30m-taken-off-stricken-ship-5038265/

[booder]

Letter in today's Guardian and link to gallery.

http://www.robertdawsongallery.co.uk/

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Letter in today's Guardian and link to gallery.

http://www.robertdawsongallery.co.uk/

Thanks for posting that Boo.

Bob Dawson is a long term family friend, he published my dad's books.

[Mohican]

When I was in my early teens i visited here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp I don't think I fully understood what had gone on there at the time.
More recently, I've been here- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane I most certainly understood this time, the full horror of what had gone on here.

[kinboshi]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000R0JDSI

You need one of these Tom

Have a read of the comments, very funny.

[Karabiner]

I may have a bash at the £100+10 mini next week in the sky thingy at DTD.

I'm thinking about playing next Friday in the 2pm start.

Might you be up for it?

[tikay]

I may have a bash at the £100+10 mini next week in the sky thingy at DTD.

I'm thinking about playing next Friday in the 2pm start.

Might you be up for it?

Look forward to seeing a reunion of the Old Boys Club (+me) Ralph.

PS - I've sent you a PM.

[booder]

Tom on holiday again?

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Tom on holiday again?

had some password problems, and difficulties with various devices

hopefully resolved now Tom?

[booder]

Has he tried turning it off and then on again ?

[TightEnd]

Has he tried turning it off and then on again ?

sadly it wasn't so easy. i had to send him to ironside

[booder]

Ironside will be able to sort it.


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