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Just watched Antony Gormley observing and commenting on cave and rock art. 

Very thought provoking, my kids demanded to know how Homo sapiens and homo neanderthalensis had come to be at the same place. It led to discussion of evolution and much pulling of books off bookshelves.

The presence of hand stencil art from Spain to Australia is pretty thought provoking.

The alternative would have been The Voice. 

Why is this kind of program such a rare event?

Which channel, which show?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0c1ngds

BBC 4 is your friend.

I was hoping to watch a proper documentary about the Great Fire last night.  I should have known it would be a dumbed down pile of pap as it was on Channel 5. I was correct; could have been really good but was a terrible pile of poor CGI, terrible presenters interspersed with some ok sciencey stuff. 

Viewing figures, funding

Beat me to it!

Because cheap programs fuel cheap channels. And since Netflix there aren't any (intelligent) films either.

There was a good prog about Australian painter Sidney Nolan too the other night. Must have been BBC4

Best cop shows if you can cope with sub titles (or are fluent enough not to need them)

1000's of years from now, will future archaeologists study ancient UKC threads and make a documentary? What would they conclude?

Oooo....is The Voice back on!!!???

There was a very sobering drama on BBC 4 last night. Son of Saul. Harrowing viewing. 

Started off harrowing and just got grimmer. The director sat the viewer at the protagonists shoulder, impressively immersive.

I think I prefer the late night science binges.

Some of the most intelligent docs over a wide variety of areas are to be found on Netflix.

Netflix is very much a curates egg. We got it primarily cos the kids were desperate to watch Stranger Things, which despite all the hoopla, I thought was pants. Yeah, its got some great docs (including Valley Uprising), some great stand-up, the fabulous Rick and Morty and loads of old favourites (found Das Boot on there last week), but too much of their own content is more National Enquirer than New York Times. They recently murdered Altered Carbon (much to my disgust) and their latest big budget film, Polar, was all over the place; looked good, great soundtrack by Deadmau5, some pleasantly titillating soft-core but an infantile storyline and some truly stomach churning violence (and my stomach's far from weak). All in all, the film pretty much summed up much of Netflix's current content.

Just watched it, really enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.

I like BBC 4 a lot but it is very much a product. You know what you’re going to get. I enjoyed this so much because it was a surprise on BBC2. A channel that used to specialise in this kind of programming.