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The Army of the Twelve Monkeys - 30 April 2008"I like monkey", Mao-be chirped as he scooped meat with his fingers from inside a skull. ‘The brains are the best,’ he enthused, his mouth full.Mao-be and his friend Noe-be were chomping at the well-charred body of a monkey that they had caught that morning.
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Tea and al-Qaida sympathy - 06 August 2007Channel 4 will allow a radical Muslim to voice his support for terrorism in a primetime slot tonight. Director Phil Rees says the media have a duty to air all sides of the debate.
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Daily Booze - 04 June 2007Few industries have changed as dramatically during the past two decades as my industry – the TV news business. Newsrooms have become chrome and glass citadels to advances in communication technology. News has become a celebration of the instant transmission of information around the world. News organisations, mostly owned by multinational entertainment conglomerates, aspire to represent the beating heart of globalisation. In their headquarters, rows of television monitors display a world of constantly fluctuating share prices, live feeds from press conferences or, occasionally, real-time combat from the front line of war.
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Two Nations - 12 March 2007The British writer and broadcaster Phil Rees joins a Muslim family for dinner and discovers that discussions about eating practices within Islam are never far removed from politics.
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Phoney War on Terror - 05 February 2007If you hear on the radio that an "intelligence-led" operation had resulted in arrests, you might feel reassured. Yet the invasion of Iraq, the shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes and the storming of a house in Forest Gate in London last August were all "intelligence-led".
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At home with the terror suspects in a state of limbo - 04 February 2007Phil Rees has spent months with some of the suspected terrorists released from Belmarsh but now growing suicidal under house arrest
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My Journey into Kabul - 02 December 2001Abdul Majid, a commander with the 710th Holy Warriors' Brigade, stood atop his mud-built fort on the frontline north of Kabul. He bellowed orders into his radio: "By sunset, reach as far as you can walk. God willing, they cannot resist the Mujahideen." Taleban forces defending Kabul had melted into the late evening sun.
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Haunted by the past - 24 April 1999When Phil Rees went to Belgrade to make a film about Serbia's first couple, a disturbing picture emerged
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The Army of the Twelve Monkeys - 30 April 2008"I like monkey", Mao-be chirped as he scooped meat with his fingers from inside a skull. ‘The brains are the best,’ he enthused, his mouth full.Mao-be and his friend Noe-be were chomping at the well-charred body of a monkey that they had caught that morning.
read more ...
Tea and al-Qaida sympathy - 06 August 2007Channel 4 will allow a radical Muslim to voice his support for terrorism in a primetime slot tonight. Director Phil Rees says the media have a duty to air all sides of the debate.
read more ...
Daily Booze - 04 June 2007Few industries have changed as dramatically during the past two decades as my industry – the TV news business. Newsrooms have become chrome and glass citadels to advances in communication technology. News has become a celebration of the instant transmission of information around the world. News organisations, mostly owned by multinational entertainment conglomerates, aspire to represent the beating heart of globalisation. In their headquarters, rows of television monitors display a world of constantly fluctuating share prices, live feeds from press conferences or, occasionally, real-time combat from the front line of war.
read more ...
Two Nations - 12 March 2007The British writer and broadcaster Phil Rees joins a Muslim family for dinner and discovers that discussions about eating practices within Islam are never far removed from politics.
read more ...
Phoney War on Terror - 05 February 2007If you hear on the radio that an "intelligence-led" operation had resulted in arrests, you might feel reassured. Yet the invasion of Iraq, the shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes and the storming of a house in Forest Gate in London last August were all "intelligence-led".
read more ...
At home with the terror suspects in a state of limbo - 04 February 2007Phil Rees has spent months with some of the suspected terrorists released from Belmarsh but now growing suicidal under house arrest
read more ...
My Journey into Kabul - 02 December 2001Abdul Majid, a commander with the 710th Holy Warriors' Brigade, stood atop his mud-built fort on the frontline north of Kabul. He bellowed orders into his radio: "By sunset, reach as far as you can walk. God willing, they cannot resist the Mujahideen." Taleban forces defending Kabul had melted into the late evening sun.
read more ...
Haunted by the past - 24 April 1999When Phil Rees went to Belgrade to make a film about Serbia's first couple, a disturbing picture emerged
read more ...
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