A Parting Shot from Dennis Potter

[lilacwine1971]

i love this man

[SarahSmith666]

I always think of dennis when i see murdoch - Dennis was a good Forest boy!!

[transonicbuoy1]

This man spoke sense before The Guardian lost the plot, and the BBC.

[NorZist]

My thought on Potter's gentle venom toward the Murdoch empire is to paraphrase form the film,The Quiet Man....* 'tis Homeric* .

[NorZist]

*..the blossomest blossom...* I recall that phrase so well - there was I, thinking I was the only person on this planet to have watched this inteview . Hope this thread does not get hijacked and turn to a Murdoch- wapping - plenty of spaces on you tube to join in with that .

If I had a nano of Potter's genius ,I'd die a happy lady<term used looseley :)

Radio Times were/are running a poll of * best interviews ever*and I voted for Potter .

[JONNOG88]

When Murdoch and his equally vile son. Where questioned by the mp's commitee If I may para-quote Indiana Jones in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull..

"Somewhere out there he, (Dennis) is looking down and laughing at this. : )

[roquefort88888]

Superb. Not only a fine writer, but he had Murdoch sussed right from the outset.

His work will survive and delight for decades to come - long after the last News of the World article is forgotten.

[helenkaram]

I saw this at the time and I'd forgotten about Rupert the tumour. He was spot-on wasn't he?

[TomthatiscalledTom]

2 dislikes...I never thought Rupert and Wendi had time for YouTube with all the shit they're in now

[shahideurope]

The phone hacking affairs has not stopped the morons buying Murdoch papers. Stupid Sun readers, god I hate them, I wish they would all just die.

[CarajilloDulce]

@shahideurope Indeed.... the country gets the media and the government it deserves (and patronises).

[kiwicafe]

the truth, well put, Murdoch is indeed, a cancerous blight.

[Ngajurlu]

A great pity Dennis Potter didn't survive to share our schadenfreude.

Did you all get to see Karaoke & Frozen Lazarus?

They way his final two works dovetailed his final interview was absolutely brilliant.

As for Singing Detective I think it should be compulsory viewing for all health workers.

[Enantiodromialist]

I saw this when it first aired in the U.S. on PBS and have always remembered it. He could not have imagined how much more right he would be almost 20 years and a dozen Glenn Beck-inspired corpses later.

[MrPembo23]

A voice of England past!! How this green and pleasant land has bee eroded by the flith and lies spouted from cheap media houses like news corp. why oh why has this run unchecked for 4 decades? £££££ thats why!!

[ThePurityControl]

Pure visionary, esp. on the matter of Murdoch.

[2porangi]

I remember this interview, but my memory let me down I thought the interviewer was Michael Parkinson, Dennis Potter made me sit up and take note of Murdoch, I have waited for his demise ever since.

[raggedclown]

I remember this well. When (and it looks like being soon now) Rupert Murdoch finally explodes in a ball of pus and slime, leaving behind nothing but a nasty stain and a bad smell, Dennis will be looking down from heaven and saying......

"GOTCHA!!!"

[JFBridge]

How very prescient Potter's musings on the Digger have now become.And how sad he did not live long enough to see the much overdue collapse of NI.DP genuinely loved and apprieciated television and regarded it as a medium that was artistic,intelligent,entertain­ing and sophisticated if people wanted it to be,and as it often was particularly in the 60's and 70's.Thanks to free market deregualtion,it scarcely is now in the X-Factor/Big Brother culture,but this NI backlash may herald a new start.

[kirstenbutler]

How relevant. Murdoch has produced nothing but vile, meaningless tattle and shit for the past 30 years. Finally time to pay the piper.

[Torka123]

This man has the most soothing voice I've ever heard

[Enantiodromialist]

@Torka123 More than that, a great writer & perhaps the greatest artist to ever work in television, & a hero on a personal level (he was crippled by an extreme form of psoriasis that reduced his hands to claws & hospitalised him annually). Check out "The Singing Detective" (called the greatest work ever created for television), "Pennies From Heaven" (the original series, not the movie), "Dreamchild" (a forgotten but very beautiful movie about Lewis Carroll & the woman who inspired Alice).

[ebgt]

Hey Dennis. For the record, on this day - 13th July 2011, Murdoch got well and truly fucked by the British People and Govt. (But, we have still failed to have him shot - sorry).

[SarahAntsez]

I hope you're having a party tonight Dennis Potter xx

[CarajilloDulce]

Rupert Murdoch is obviously a despicable character, no doubt, but let's not forget those citizens who have made him so wealthy by delighting in the garbage his media empire spits out. Maybe if the citizens had more enquiring minds and spent less time in the adoration of football, cars, beer, and gossip, Murdoch would not have been so successful.

[surfin4]

@CarajilloDulce really do you have sky? do you enjoy endless cookery shows, qvc, and bent game shows, poker tournaments and idiots from dawn to dusk? thats a monopoly there is no alternative used to be a tv channel or tv show show needed an audience...... not any more!

[CarajilloDulce]

@surfin4 No, I don't have Sky and nor do I subscribe to any of the garbage put out by the Murdoch Empire. The internet is full of alternatives to Murdoch owned content, and there are plenty of other sources of information and entertainment... books, movies, music et.al. that are not controlled by the Dirty Digger.

[BoxingBadBoy77]

@CarajilloDulce Thats because those people are easily led and in certain cases not very intelligent.

[RashidDostum]

You should all will Murdoch to die a far more cruel death than Potter suffered. Will it with sincerity, I certainly do. When I hear Ruperts name or see that reptilian face I spare him a vindictive thought and hope that his cells turn on him.

[fieldmajorstyre]

Murdoch Illuminati Scum

[theleftsideofthekop]

In recent days people have talked of losing the News of The World as a loss to democracy and I thought - What? A wonderful interview with a wonderful man

[gorkys6]

Please youtube "It's a Soaraway Life" for a more satirical take on the Murdoch Empire in the form of parody from 1994 by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie

[shahideurope]

Rupert Murdoch dislikes this (the only dislike for this). I despise Rupert Murdoch but I despise the morons who read his newspapers even more.

[jjtb4v]

To control the world, one simply needs to control the media.

[HandwrittenTheatre]

Looking at the spike in viewers over the past couple of days, I want to thank everybody who's taken the time to listen to Mr. Potter and leave comments. I urge you to watch the complete final interview with Melvyn Bragg. You can find it here on YouTube.

[roachy333]

@HandwrittenTheatre

A pleasure...I always knew that this clip would one day arise from the ashes and be finally appreciated for its weight. His quote re: Murdoch has always been on point...as much back then, as it is now.

The 'nowness' of this interview...ooh I love the irony.

Dennis is my TV & writing hero.

My VHS copy of the Bragg interview is...always to be treasured.

[10003949]

@HandwrittenTheatre Its been removed again for copyright infringement. Whats going on? This will be the second time its been removed. We'll have to start over again.

[kamyueloh]

@HandwrittenTheatre where can I find the whole thing? I had the VHS but it got nicked. Thanks

[Remkovanbroekhoven]

So moving, so brilliant, so great. Even more so now Rupert 'Hannibal the Cannibal' Murdoch once again is 'in the news': closing his monstrous News of the World. Dennis Potter will be smiling all the way up in heaven...

[videoclog]

@Remkovanbroekhoven Nu de Volkskrant en de NRC nog!

[TheMimifur]

This has been posted on my FB wall, I have posted it at GU because with what is happening today, Dennis Potter foresaw it.

[richnwood2000]

Rest in Peace, Dennis. I deeply hope we can finally put to rest this Murdoch fevered ego that has dragged our country through the filth.... bribing the police, spying and harassing the innocent..... frightening the public about trivia and hiding the truth amid mindless celebrity gossip, while bullying politicians to favour the companies that pay for advertising space.... I would love to see the News Group house of cards fall.

[JONNOG88]

If only Dennis was alive to witness this weeks events. And the expose of Murdoch's Evil Empire. For the hideous, immoral, scoop hungry beast it really is. And If only we listened to Dennis then.

RIP Dennis.

The fact that you died so young (at 59). And that vile antipodean asshole smirks away at 80. Makes my blood boil

[mangoswiss]

I happen to disagree with the sentiment but there's no denying that this is interesting television.

[roachy333]

"There is no one person more responsible for the pollution of what was already a fairly polluted press. And the pollution of the press is an important part of the pollution of British political life, and it's an important part of the cynicism and misperception of our own realities that is destroying so much of our political discourse. "

Possibly..the most important quote that has ever been uttered..in the sewage that is modern media. It's not just the NOTW, but the whole corporation.

[luvgjb4evr]

@roachy333: Here here!

[Corrie121]

Every politician should digest this. Dennis was so perceptive.

This mogul Murdoch should be forced to divest himself of ownership of most of his British newspaper titles. 

[661cyclist]

I remember watching this interview when it was first broadcast.

If only we had all heeded your words closer, when you first spoke them, Dennis!

Rupert's on the run now, I reckon. Even though, in the flesh, he outlives you by seventeen years, *you* are the one who will live on when Murdoch is consigned to a forgotten chapter of history.

[krakenwave]

@661cyclist

I watched this too - and I heeded it, so powerful and so obvious even then was the message to anyone who gave a shit about the way the UK was going. But I got shouted down over the years by those who profited, those complicit and all the rest - the intellectually and morally bone idle and unenquiring who told me to "Just shut up, who cares, give the people what they want".

I am the people and I still want that POS's head on the block of regulation-breakers.

Right the fuck NOW.

[BritishSnail]

Many thanks to Denis Potter.  RIP

[Bruchag]

there is truth and perception.. perception and truth...WHO

[Dendiol]

Some very true words there, resonant now in light of this week's appalling behaviour by Murdoch's empire.

[TheGlitzieGirl1]

Brilliant! And how apt for today! I remember this interview and how impressed I was - would be great to see the whole interview?

[DelanceyVids]

1 dislike.. Hello Mr Murdoch.

[littleblackpistol]

"I call my cancer Rupert"

This clip should be shown on every channel, every day, until the point sinks in. Fuck Murdoch and fuck every careerist politician and every corrupt member of the Met who did slimy deals with him and his 'journalists'.

[sternumagnum]

@littleblackpistol Hear, hear. Where are our day's Dennis Potters? 

[CamberwellSE5]

What a timely reminder. The sickos at NoTW - lead by the devil woman - should be banged up for their appalling and sickening hacking of a murdered child's mobile phone.

[TomthatiscalledTom]

If Murdoch is cancer, then Cowell is leprosy

[JONNOG88]

Thanks Rupert for giving us The Simpsons. Which as we all know is the foundation of Western Civilisation. Aswell as Archer.But your papers, The Sun & NOTW. Are vile, spread bigotary & missinformation. And practice ammoral journalism. Please see to it that you die soon. And take your equally vile ankle bighting son James with you!

[ISamuelII]

I never got the idea behind making depressing 'situation comedy' programming. That is what made me tune out. If you enjoyed the 'married w/children' or 'lavern&surely you jest' funny. tell me why a depressing life is funny.

[punkyhiphopdood]

A Brilliant mind. True words spoken by this fella. RIP mate. You were fighting a losing cause here.

[rogerfentiman]

Does anybody have the video of Dennis's speech to the Royal Television Society from about the same time? Even more hard-hitting as I remember it.

[heathercroall]

Murdoch's 80th birthday is coming up this week. I hope that this video is spread by many as a Happy Birthday to Rupert

[Songsmirth]

Fasinating. And he called it. Networks can know at any given time how many people are watching a show at any minute. So, from what he said, they must take those numbers and say, "well, this played well here so have the writers do something similar in another episode" or something. I've given up my tv because of the juke and commercials. Just too tiresome. Is his book, "Ticket to Ride" anywhere here on Youtube or elsewhere anyone? Interesting man. Would have liked to talk to him. :)

[napalmdeathfromabove]

What a man!  wish I had him as a lecturer!

man speaks the truth!

[JFBridge]

Potter's prophecy has,if anything,become even more excessive since his death,with multiple channels broadcasting trash,Reality TV infliced upon us at every corner,and subscription TV threatening to take over Freeview completely,thank to Digger Rupert.Potter looked on TV as an artistic medium to educate,inform and entertain;Murdoch merely looks on TV to fill hsi own pockets and amplify his far-right views.

[Maddadubdu]

One of the most astonishing pieces of TV ever. This one moment justifies the whole history of British television. Well done Handwritten Theatre!!

[MsJudgejudy]

The devil looks after his own.

[MrFarcry1966]

Murdoch will live to a ripe old age and die contented in his bed and this is direct evidence that the idea of a just God guiding the universe is a phenomenal, deluded fantasy.

[Songsmirth]

@MrFarcry1966 I won't give you a thumbs up or down because of your opinion. You have a right to it but I have a question for you. Do you think God created the world to be perfect? When Heart died he was one of the richest men in the world. He was another Murdock. One of the last things he ever said was, "I wonder if I ever had a true friend?" Can you imagine? Happy doesn't equal money. Usually excessive money complicates life. Not many use it for good. Henry Ford did though. Good man.

[MrFarcry1966]

@Songsmirth

God, of course, could not create even a ham sandwich, as God is nothing more than a fiction in the minds of those too frightened to face reality.

[catsxb]

@Songsmirth Henry Ford? The anti-semite? The man who published four volumes called The International Jew: The Worlds Problem? Hmmmm. I can think of other people who are more well deserving of such praise.

[thenamesbondy]

Unfortunately Murdoch has spawned a whole family of little megalomaniacs.

[Kevinasp]

I know out of the two who ought to have got Cancer and died in '94 and it certainly wasn't Mr Potter.

[JuanMacready]

@Kevinasp He deserved to die of cancer.

[Kevinasp]

@JuanMacready If he did, Murdoch ought to have died with Cancer 10 times. A shithouse of the highest order.

[bernieholland775]

Dennis Potter and Rupert Murdoch - I mean, how much more diametrically opposite can you get ........................Dennis Potter rest in peace - Rupert Murdoch, go fuck yourself..............

[10003949]

For those who don't yet know @herefordmsv has very kindly posted the whole interview in 7 x 10 minute segments. Please join with me and thank this very kind and thoughtful person for taking the trouble to do this on our behalves.

[SouthbankSteve]

In under 4 minutes here is almost all I agree with Potter about TV. A master writer giving a master class

[10003949]

Hello everybody. Please keep on looking for a VHS video of this, post it and make a lot of people very happy. I wonder if any of Mr Potter's family or friends have a copy of this. Just a thought.......................­..

[HandwrittenTheatre]

@10003949 The full version was up on YouTube at some point, now it seems to exist only in print form in a book from Faber & Faber, "Seeing The Blossom,' and as out of print VHS tapes on eBay

[10003949]

@HandwrittenTheatre. Thanks for confirming it has been removed by someone......but why would anyone do this? Thanks also for the lead, I suppose because I want to share the power of this with my teenage boys anything less than the visual medium...............well you get the rest. Regards

[mtend06]

@10003949 I've got the full version of this somewhere. I'll upload A.S.A.P.

[herefordmsv]

@10003949 I'll be uploading this today. Sadly as with all my Dennis Potter stuff on Youtube I will have to split it into 10 minute segments, but hopefull it wont affect too much the enjoyment of it.

[10003949]

@herefordmsv .Thank you thank you thank you. You have made me very happy this evening and I am forever in your debt. To watch it again and re live what I thought then as now is a very powerful emotion. I am now able to share with my boys a hero of mine, a man with a philosophy, humanity, clarity and generousity many would do well to understand and aspire to. Thank you.

[herefordmsv]

@10003949 Thank you, very welcome

[ludwigvonsteampole1]

Dennis Potter demonstrates so powerfully that he saw the future...And that future was a controlled media run by huge powerfull Media Barons who hand in hand with a vicious political culture that would put a price on every one and every thing, package the future of televison and suffocate those who stood in the way...Thank you for posting.

[alberich00]

Dennis, you should have killed Rupert when you had the chance.

[TheBoeks]

Thanks, remember watching the interview and after that Karaoke and Cold Lazarus with my husband. So many years later. Murdoch and other like him still trying to take it al over.

Public television is ever more in danger.

[tooyjfwn]

calling it rupert is an insult to cancer

[DevaRupa]

Lovely to hear someone who can use the English language clearly

[IndependentGeorge76]

rest in peace mr potter - and if you thought it was bad in 1994 thank christ you havent seen the state of british broadcasting in 2010!

perhaps a modern cancer could be called 'cowell'.

[taphn]

murdoch. media at its lowest common denominator ar------ole

[AustinSomerset]

I have never forgotten Mr Potter's analogy about Murdoch and have often quoted it. Another thing I recall him pointing out was that even at this time it was difficult for the old school of writers - himself and Alan Plater etc to get their work on television - it was also difficult for new writers to get their work shown and for the commissioning editors to take the risk with them.

[AustinSomerset]

I had no idea that this would be on YT. Still, it's surprising what is! Thank you. I remember being riveted to my seat watching this in '94. I couldn't move and sat there slowly drying up for want of a cup of tea/glass of wine. It is so sad that in a way - and no thanks to the likes of Tony Blair, that Murdoch has won. I hope he never completely succeeds I really don't - but politicians the world over seem to be under his wing.

[dfdemello]

....read the best part of the interview below....read the post at the bottom first and work your way upwards...enjoy

[dfdemello]

There's no way of telling you; you have to experience it, but the glory of it, if you like, the comfort of it, the reassurance ... not that I'm interested in reassuring people - bugger that. The fact is, if you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

[dfdemello]

Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous, and if people could see that, you know.

[dfdemello]

Below my window in Ross, when I'm working in Ross, for example, there at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it's white, and looking at it, instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... last week looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it.

[dfdemello]

The only thing you know for sure is the present tense, and that nowness becomes so vivid that, almost in a perverse sort of way, I'm almost serene. You know, I can celebrate life.

[dfdemello]

However predictable tomorrow is, and unfortunately for most people, most of the time, it's too predictable, they're locked into whatever situation they're locked into ... Even so, no matter how predictable it is, there's the element of the unpredictable, of the you don't know.

[dfdemello]

We all, we're the one animal that knows that we're going to die, and yet we carry on paying our mortgages, doing our jobs, moving about, behaving as though there's eternity in a sense. And we forget or tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense; it is is, and it is now only. I mean, as much as we would like to call back yesterday and indeed yearn to, and ache to sometimes, we can't. It's in us, but we can't actually; it's not there in front of us.

[davepx]

One of TV's - and Potter's - greatest moments: I remember this bit like it was yesterday - was it really 16 years ago? Maybe there are bits of the internet he'd like: I'm sure he'd be tickled by Murdoch's pathetic effort to get suckers to pay for content that others happily supply for free.

[Gareth7685]

Great parting shot at the shit from a great man. Wonder what he would've made of the top quality shows that are being produced despite (and certainly not because of) the control of Murdoch and his ilk. One thing is for sure, Potter showed us that TV can be art, and that's something we'll need from telly whoever owns its production. Murdoch is in it for control but you can't stop the signal! Respect due to Potter for leading the way! Elbow.

[TheRagazza2008]

The world is so much bleaker without Dennis Potter. What a fantasticly visionary man and an exceptional writer he was

[roachy333]

I recently picked up a video copy of this interview...it is one of the most (probably the most) remarkable pieces of television that I've ever witnessed.

It's hard to believe that such a talented writer ever graced our screens with his sublime work...even more so now, when you purvey the sewage that is now regarded as television drama.

'The glittering coffin' ironically now best describes the 'television set'.

[intermender]

Perhaps Dennis would have enjoyed the rise of the internet over television and that much content escapes mogul control thus manifesting that lost egalitarianism he once saw in television.

I dont' know what the general trend but i was a stereptypical tv addict watching it most of my waking life, anything and everything and repeats, but now i am mostly on the internet.

Now its likely i will research and pursue a thought process using the internet and wikipaedia and my english has improved.

[katiegreenaway]

Yes, T.V. &the arts now appeal only to the lowest common denominator, & it's due to capitalism &Bastard Murdoch. Money. has no correlation with the arts. I sometimes wonder how many supressed marvels there are out there, because they aren't profit making.

[katiegreenaway]

I too would enjoy killing Murdoch.and I'm a passifist. When is the decrepit old bastard going to die? Evil

[IntellectualAmy]

I remember watching this whole interview and feeling such deep sadness. Dennis Potter certainly was a ground-breaking Television playwright. I always adored the way how he fused drama with 1930's/40's songs. There was no other writer like him. Many playwrights achive one notable work for which they will always be remembered for. Dennis Potter wrote plays that will be fondly remembered for years to come. Cold Lazerus was a fitting end to a brilliant life.

[webaroos]

Watch out for the world's largest purveyor of pornography & news manipulation thru his Fox smut channels, also I saw an entire epsiode on the Murdoch family, a story by actor Tim Robbins totally blanked on Foxtel, that is what this scummy creep will resort to to oide his his devious credentials.

[oneworldfamily]

Media editors and bosses should watch this before starting work every morning.

[Apulius]

Amen.

[SiHeywoodStoryteller]

Thanks for posting this. Eerily prescient.

[Freddowasher]

I remember seeing the full version too it was wonderful. Can't believe it's not available any longer. What's happened to it?

[luvgjb4evr]

Yes - what happened to it. I want to see it again too.

[mikris50]

He was without doubt an extraordinary individual, blessed in his recollection, sure in his now and proven in prediction of our future. DP will be reborn, again and again by very virtue of his truth. Murdoch and his ilk will simply die and go, superfluous to any lasting memory in the megalomania, greed and squander, swallowed by their own nonsense!

[eastsidefilms]

My Grandfather recommended this interview to me as a teenager and I am so happy to see this posted here.

After my Grandfather died I am sure one of my family kept the tapes. I shall enquire and see if I can share the whole thing again.

Hopefully there are no 'ownership' issues as I believe all young people shold experience the wonderful words of the late, great Mr Potter.

[10003949]

The thing is, and this may surprize you, but the whole of this video was on You Tube until the last year or so, I know because when my VHS copy of this packed up I was delighted to find it on You Tube. So......someone kindly posted it......and then sometime afterwards, someone somewhere decided to remove it....I wonder why? I wish every young person could see and listen to this man, understand his philosophy, and live by the code he espouses. Please if anyone has the full length version-post it!

[Deltic9]

Is it really some 15 years since I first saw this? Wow. Stunning to see it again for the first time since then, I have vivid memories the first time, and watching in awe at how well Potter gets his message across. It is such a shame that the whole of this interview with Melvin Bragg is not on YouTube, it is one of the most thought provoking interviews. Thanks for sharing this wonderful snippet from such a wonderfully creative and gifted writer, dare I say genius.

[10003949]

Prophetic words:

"I would shoot the bugger if I could,

There is no one person more responsible for the pollution of what was already a fairly polluted press and the pollution of the British Press is an important part of the pollution of British Political life and its important part of the cynicism and mis-perception of our own realities that is distroying so much of our political discourse and that is what is happening"........ every person should remember this great mans last words.

[stevohorn]

Many thanks for downloading part of what was a truly memorable interview (btw do you have any more?)

Typical though.. This thought provoking, articulate and (given the circumstances) moving interview gets under 2,000 views on youtube..and a clip of a stormtrooper dancing or such, gets millions upon millions.

Lets hope another Dennis Potter comes along soon to save us!

[HandwrittenTheatre]

Thanks. You should be able to find the entire interview elsewhere on YouTube. There's a published version in a faber and faber paperback, "Seeing The Blossom."

[10003949]

I first saw this when it was first broadcast and viewed it again some time ago. I wanted to show my son so he could understand what a great free thinker Dennis was but although I've searched long and hard to view this entire interview on YouTube again, I cannot find it. Could the wretched finger of Murdoch infiltrated You Tube. Just an aside I also looked for some of the great interviiews with Gore Vidal and many of these also can no longer be found. Now there is another great mind.

[10003949]

You keep sayng this Hanrwritten but as yet despite many searches I've still not found the full version. Send me the link and I'lll be forever in your debt.

[10003949]

@stevohorn have a look again because @herefordmsv has  very kindly posted the whole thing.

[newwkicks]

@stevohorn that comment really made laugh and is true

[suewant]

dennis should be hailed as one of our greats why because he was

[999FRIENDS]

This footage is much to nice

Rupert Murdoch made Goebbels into an Angel and is

by his propaganda machine responsable

for millions of death, suffering

AND the decline of the Planet and the human race.

The word Cancer is to much a honor.

-Equally responsible are British Sky subscribers

financing all his horror.--

Said my wife : I saw a movie about him while young - he was nice

Said I : Who made it ?

[tuftybox1821]

Be nice if the world were that simple. Murdoch is one of the world's cunts, no doubt, and I avoid ever buying The Sun or subscribing to Sky. But the stain bleeds further than one little man, innit.

[adam7863]

Fantastic Television, really great interview.

[michaelpoplett]

Yes, I could not agree more, but there is an even greater piece of Dennis Potter's work that we have yet to see on, er, oh yes, youtube. It was the Lecture he delivered to the (?) Oxford Union a short while before he passed away. Please help anyone, and post this, if you can!!!!

[sallymoussawi]

beautiful!

[freestuffffff]

Rupert Murdoch is all tied up with cronies Larry Silverstein and Frank Lowy who profited in the billions from 9/11 insurance settlements, and with Lewis Eisenberg of the Port Authority who handed them the WTC leases six weeks before the attack. The facts have NEVER gotten in the way of fascist propaganda at Murdoch's NY POST or FOX NEWS. He LOVES Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani too, both of whom perpetuate the BIG LIE about 9/11.

[fandoki]

where did you get this information exactly?