About TomsTVpicks

Most TV programs are crap, reflecting the fact that TV programming is designed primarily to keep advertisers happy or, in the case of the ABC, to reproduce the values of Australian nationalism. In this blog I try to sort out the wheat from the chaff. If you know of programs coming up that you think a left-wing audience would be interested in hearing about please contact me, Tom Bramble, at tombram@gmail.com. Please "follow" this blog by inserting your email in the box below to the right if you'd like to be sure of getting posts in your email inbox, and tell your friends about this blog (or "share" it on Facebook) if you think they'd like to read it too.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Tom's TV picks week beginning 23 October

Just a quick, cut down version as too busy to do much more, but some things definitely worth catching in the next week:

Sunday 8.30pm SBS1: Dateline has a feature on the Syrian revolt, followed immediately afterwards by:

Sunday 9.30pm SBS 1: "My Lai": documentary on massacre in Vietnam when US troops wiped out an entire village. Remember this when you hear the US crowing about bringing freedom to Libya.

Monday 8.30pm ABC1: 4 Corners: feature on Australia's brutal refugee detention centres. An inside look.

Thursday 8.30pm SBS2: "China Blue": documentary about conditions of Chinese factory workers.

Saturday 10.20pm SBS1: "Hunger": film about Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands. Harrowing but demonstration of indomitable spirit of the hunger strikers in their campaign for political prisoner status

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