Interesting contrast on the Channel 4 schedules tonight. Just watched an extraordinarily moving documentary on the efforts to recover and identify the bodies of the Australian and British soldiers killed in the slaughter at Fromelles in 1916, and the resonance the loss of these lads still has for their relatives and descendants today. Made with sensitivity and intelligence, and showing the suffering and futility of the trench warfare, it brought a couple of the lads' and their loved ones' stories alive powerfully. Quality TV and it shows Channel 4 can still commission bloody good programmes.
What was on directly after it? Big Brother. I have nothing whatsoever against any of the people in the Big Brother house, indeed I know nothing about them having not watched any of it, but I'd suggest that the Fromelles documentary should be required viewing for anybody entering that house, just to give them all a sense of perspective.
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