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Michael Aspel Remembers... The War Game (2025)
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| Size | Seeds | Peers | Completed |
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| 1.11 GiB | 25 | 1 | 122 |
Michael Aspel looks back on one of the BBC's most controversial programmes of the 1960s, The War Game. Directed by Peter Watkins, with Michael providing some of the film's narration, this docu-drama explored what might happen if a nuclear bomb was dropped on Britain. It was pulled from transmission by the BBC's then director general, who deemed it 'too horrifying' to be seen, leading Watkins to quit the BBC, claiming government interference was to blame. Despite winning an Oscar, the film was not shown on television until 20 years later, and here, Michael looks back on the programme, the controversy and his own small part in a key moment in TV history.
Technical Specs:
Video Codec: x265 CABAC Main@L4
Video Bitrate: CRF 21 (~2618Kbps)
Video Resolution: 1920x1080
Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frame Rate: 25 FPS
Audio Codec: AAC-LC (Apple)
Audio Bitrate: q118 VBR 48KHz (128/239Kbps avg/peak)
Audio Channels: 2
Audio Gain: 4dB
Run-Time: 58 mins (total)
Number Of Parts: 1 (2 chapters)
Part Size: 1.11 GB
Source: HDTV (1080i/h264 5958Kbps VBR 2.72GB)
Encoded by: JungleBoy @ MVGroup
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Excellent find nibs....
Excellent find nibs....
Aspel also did this
Aspel also did this astonishing one off called GHOSTWATCH...
It had similar impact in England to the War of the Worlds broadcast year earlier....
It's probably on Sneaky-Chew-Tube if you look...
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shuffle wrote:
ghostwatch was a piss take, a wind up, there to fool the public where as The War Game was not a wind up but there to show the facts of a nuclear war and it's effect on the Uk in particular.