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In case you're looking for inspiration...

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-do ... obal-en-GB
52 of the best documentaries on Netflix right now

Our edit of the best Netflix documentaries right now, selected by the WIRED editorial team and updated twice monthly
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This could be well worth a watch - being shown on BBC 2 this evening (12.02 - 9pm), so will no doubt be available to download in a couple of days: -

[EDIT] Full Details @ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... e-in-wales

The Lost Circle Revealed

"An ancient myth about Stonehenge, first recorded 900 years ago, tells of the wizard Merlin leading men to Ireland to capture a magical stone circle called the Giants’ Dance and rebuilding it in England as a memorial to the dead.

Geoffrey of Monmouth’s account had been dismissed, partly because he was wrong on other historical facts, although the bluestones of the monument came from a region of Wales that was considered Irish territory in his day.

Now a vast stone circle created by our Neolithic ancestors has been discovered in Wales with features suggesting that the 12th-century legend may not be complete fantasy.

Its diameter of 110 metres is identical to the ditch that encloses Stonehenge and it is aligned on the midsummer solstice sunrise, just like the Wiltshire monument.

A series of buried stone-holes that follow the circle’s outline has been unearthed, with shapes that can be linked to Stonehenge’s bluestone pillars. One of them bears an imprint in its base that matches the unusual cross-section of a Stonehenge bluestone “like a key in a lock”, the archaeologists discovered.

Mike Parker Pearson, a professor of British later prehistory at University College London, told the Guardian: “I’ve been researching Stonehenge for 20 years now and this really is the most exciting thing we’ve ever found.”

The evidence backs a century-old theory that the nation’s greatest prehistoric monument was built in Wales and venerated for hundreds of years before being dismantled and dragged to Wiltshire, where it was resurrected as a second-hand monument."


Always knew the damn English stole it! :wink: :duck:
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Time for a petition to have the stones returned.
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^^Yes, looking forward to this.
pharvey wrote: Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:59 pm Always knew the damn English stole it! :wink: :duck:
I read an alternative theory the other day that the original inhabitants of Pembrokeshire decided to move south and took their temple stones with them. So not English thieves, but Welsh emigrants! :laugh: :laugh:
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Geoffrey of Monmouth’s account had been dismissed, partly because he was wrong on other historical facts,
Or maybe because King Arthur, the wizard Merlin and Camelot were fiction!!
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HHTel wrote: Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:49 pmOr maybe because King Arthur, the wizard Merlin and Camelot were fiction!!
NON-BELIEVER!! :tsk:
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dtaai-maai wrote: Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:27 pmSo not English thieves, but Welsh emigrants! :laugh: :laugh:
Pah!! :neener:
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I want to post some podcast documentary series. Sorry I don't provide links because it depends on your podcast source ...

Framed (series 2)

Wondery - The Apology Line

American Skyjacker

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Here is another great true crime documentary series on podcast. 8 x 30m episodes.

No Strings Attached

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-07-13/no- ... me-podcast

It's available by searching for it on your pod catcher of choice.
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The Phenomenon

Now, let me start out by saying that while I enjoy sci-fi, I'm by no means a UFO nut. I don't watch alien abduction so-called documentaries and the like. However... this documentary is jam-packed with plausible, convincing testimony from all sorts of reliable sources, and makes a very good case for encounters with UFOs and, in some cases, alien beings. Judge for yourself.

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dtaai-maai wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 3:45 am The Phenomenon

Now, let me start out by saying that while I enjoy sci-fi, I'm by no means a UFO nut. I don't watch alien abduction so-called documentaries and the like. However... this documentary is jam-packed with plausible, convincing testimony from all sorts of reliable sources, and makes a very good case for encounters with UFOs and, in some cases, alien beings. Judge for yourself.

I downloaded from YIFI.
Yep..really enjoyed this one and compelling about the encounter with the schoolkids.
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American Murder: The Family Next Door

The Chris Watts murders.

Most likely been watched by most already but honestly I can't get enough of it. Watched it five or six times now. It's so interesting watching Chris Watts lie about his family's whereabouts knowing he'd mercilessly killed them just hours before.

Just a heartbreaking look into a man, on camera, trying to cover his tracks. A man who had, just the previous night, murdered his wife and 2 kids. Now trying to fool the police and the public. What kind of monster is this guy?

He's so obviously guilty it's proper cringeworthy watching the initial police cams of him. Then the interrogation. And finally the polygraph.

Compelling viewing. And horrifyingly tragic.
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I've just watched 'Earth - The Inside Story'. Made in 2014. Maybe not everyone's 'cup of tea' but I found it fascinating. It added a lot of detail to what I already knew about the formation of our planet.

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Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle

Watched this after only recently getting round to the chernobyl series which was excellent. What was an almighty shitstorm could have evidently been a whole lot worse! :shock:

This documentary was pretty interesting with Ben staying in the radioactive exclusion zone for a week. Talking to some survivors and the like. Really eerie place.

It's on catch up on My 5 for anyone interested.

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Lost wrote: Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:17 am Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle
Watched this after only recently getting round to the chernobyl series which was excellent. What was an almighty shitstorm could have evidently been a whole lot worse! :shock:

This documentary was pretty interesting with Ben staying in the radioactive exclusion zone for a week. Talking to some survivors and the like. Really eerie place.
Very good documentary, after playing the PC game years ago I didn't realize the Stalkers were actually real!

Seaspiracy
An in-depth look into what is probably a greater threat to the Earth than climate change or plastic pollution - commercial fishing. Hard to imagine oceans could be depleted and their ecosystems broken down within 30 years, which is bad news for everything else on the planet. Very powerful stuff.
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