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On The Box Last Night

Final Eco Challenge coverage, foot and mouth investigation and mountain rescue - all in one evening...


Posted: 3 July 2001
by Jon

The television cup runneth over tonight, which is Tuesday by the way.

7.00pm Channel 5 - Eco-Challenge

Final instalment in C5's coverage of last year's Eco Challenge from Borneo - unbelievably hard etc.

9.00pm Channel 4: Outbreak - The True Story of Foot and Mouth

The first of what promises to be a deluge of 'wise-after-the-event' analyses of an epidemic which isn't even over yet. Should be totally infurating. And it was... What a farce.

10:35 BBC1 - 999

Apparently includes 'a mountain rescue' - don't you just love those reconstructions and the way the actors look nothing like the original victims?


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I missed the program on F&M last night. Was that a good move by me, or did I miss anything insightful?

Posted: 04/07/2001 at 13:25

Jon here - not really. Just a catalogue of incompetence behind the scenes until the army were drafted in and killede everything. Never questioned the economic rationalisation behind the whole affair. Predictable. Never mentioned walkers, bikers or access, just how terrible it all was for the poor old farmers.

Posted: 04/07/2001 at 15:54

Erm, bit confusing posing as me and saying 'Jon here' but it really is him. Glossop man has been dragged to London for the day. Is settling in nicely. Please do not feed.

Posted: 04/07/2001 at 16:01

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