Thread: The New 10 Commandments BBC2-Scotland Sunday 7 December 22.50-00.30,

BBC2 Scotland has scheduled a broadcast of "The New 10 Commandments" (The New Ten Commandments) a Scottish-produced human-rights documentary for Sunday 7th December 2008, 22.50 to 00.30 - starting then at 10.50pm after Match of the Day 2.

Originally Posted by BBC Two Programmes - Scotland Schedule

BBC Two Programmes - Scotland Schedule for Sunday 7 December 2008
22.50
The New 10 Commandments
Filmmakers and artists look at Scotland through the prism of human rights.

Originally Posted by BBC Programmes - The New 10 Commandments

BBC Programmes - The New 10 Commandments
07 Dec 2008, 22:50 on BBC Two (Scotland only)
A uniquely Scottish documentary that brings together Oscar, Turner prize and Bafta winners to look at Scotland through the prism of human rights.

Marking the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, filmmakers and artists such as Tilda Swinton, Irvine Welsh and Douglas Gordon each tackle a 'new commandment'.

Exploring such issues as torture, slavery, or the freedoms of thought and assembly, the resulting film is a powerful, passionate and surprisingly humorous artistic collaboration that gives intimate meaning to human rights in Scotland.

The world premiere of The New Ten Commandments was this year at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.




Those standing up for human rights in Scotland appearing in the different chapters of the programme include -

• Peter Dow's republican protest against the Queen at Holyrood
• Aamer Anwar, lawyer, defending a contempt of court charge
• Jim Swire, campaigning on Lockerbie Pan Am flight 103 bombing
• Anti-slavery-sex-trafficking, Suicides-concerned and Asylum-seekers campaigners

Also featuring

• Kenny Richey liberated from death-row. Scotland's 20 years he missed
• Enhanced interrogation techniques - the sheep's perspective
• A narrated comic about a man who liked to ride his bike in private
• Thespian musings

Follow the count-down to the TV broadcast of The New Ten Commandments on Scottish Republican News.

Originally Posted by Peter Dow

BBC Two (Scotland Only)

BBC 2 Scotland is also broadcast by Sky Satellite TV on channel 990 - so there is an opportunity for some of those in the rest of Britain to see the programme too.

HEY I AM ON TV THIS SUNDAY!

PETER DOW ON TV! THIS SUNDAY!

BBC2 SCOTLAND & SKY CHANNEL 990
10.50pm
Well say something somebody!

Fame at last eh ?

Well done Peter !

Originally Posted by youcanhandlethetruth

Fame at last eh ?

Well done Peter !

Thanks.

I am only going to be on TV for 10 minutes so I reckon I still need another 5 minutes of fame to reach the Andy Warhol benchmark of 15 minutes of fame.

However I am 48 years old and when compared to teenage pop stars and the like who get way more than 15 minutes of fame, I am a slow-starter in the fame business.

Nevertheless, if all I was to get in life was 15 minutes of fame, I think 10 minutes speaking out for a Scottish republic and human rights is an excellent use of my due allocation of fame.

Originally Posted by Peter Dow

Thanks.

I am only going to be on TV for 10 minutes so I reckon I still need another 5 minutes of fame to reach the Andy Warhol benchmark of 15 minutes of fame.

However I am 48 years old and when compared to teenage pop stars and the like who get way more than 15 minutes of fame, I am a slow-starter in the fame business.

Nevertheless, if all I was to get in life was 15 minutes of fame, I think 10 minutes speaking out for a Scottish republic and human rights is an excellent use of my due allocation of fame.

Absolutely, well said that man.

I would never exchange my human rights or right to speak, no matter how much money or stardom was bestowed on me.
Without the former the latter is useless (and I wouldn't want to be famous either really).

What chance do young people have today with such media influence and the promoted worshipping of money and celebrities ?

I'll be watching ! (hope I've got the channel.....)

sweetcaroline,

Do you know the Queen has just shut down the Canadian parliament ?
I've posted a thread in the "International politics" section.

I suggest you read it - I think you'll find it quite interesting.