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BBC Adam Curtis Blog
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The stories Kabul: City Number One How Much Do You Know? Election Kinshasa: City Number Two It Felt Like A Kiss Back Stories Adam Curtis is a documentary film maker, whose work includes The Power of Nightmares, The Century of the Self, The Mayfair Set, Pandora's Box, The Trap and The Living Dead. Adam writes: "This is a website expressing my personal views – through a selection of opinionated observations and arguments. I’ll be including stories I like, ideas I find fascinating, work in progress and a selection of material from the BBC archives." The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. -->
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IF YOU TAKE MY ADVICE - ID REPRESS THEM

Bahrain, along with Syria, has become a symbol of the failure of the Arab Spring to deliver real democracy and freedom across the Arab world. The media in Britain portray a rigid, oppressive almost f...

11 maj 12

WHITE NEGRO FOR MAYOR

This Thursday Londoners will vote to elect a new city mayor, and I thought it would be a good moment to put up a great documentary about how Norman Mailer stood for Mayor of New York in 1969. It is a...

01 maj 12

RUPERT MURDOCH - A PORTRAIT OF SATAN

Today the Rupert Murdoch story has finally reached the issue that has been lurking in the shadows of this whole saga - and what has always made people most uneasy about him. It is the true nature of ...

25 apr 12

BODYBUILDING AND NATION-BUILDING

At first sight the search for peace and stability in Iraq, and the search for physical and mental fitness in the extreme contortions of modern Yoga seem to have absolutely nothing in common. But cur...

27 mar 12

WHO WOULD GOD VOTE FOR?

When you bring God into politics very strange things happen. You can see this now in both America and Iran -  in their elections and also in the growing confrontation between them. But it w...

06 mar 12

A MILE OR TWO OFF YARMOUTH

Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality. It is naive to think that it is possible to live without the protective bubbles these ...

24 feb 12 1 person likes this

WERE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT - ARENT WE?

At every moment there are hundreds of thousands of Americans and Europeans floating around the world on "Funships" - superliners like the Costa Concordia that crashed and capsized off the coa...

31 jan 12

THE YEARS OF STAGNATION AND THE POODLES OF POWER

Everybody is always remarking about how stuck our society feels these days. The music doesnt change, the political parties are all exactly the same, and films and TV dramas are almost always set in t...

18 jan 12

THE GHOSTS IN THE LIVING ROOM

Here is a ghost story for Christmas - it is a brief history of the appearance of ghosts and poltergeists and other spirits on television. Not fictional ghosts - but real ones, or the reports of ...

22 dec 11 1 person likes this

THE BITCH, THE STUD AND THE PRAWN

THE RISE OF GEEZER CAPITALISM IN MODERN BRITAIN It is very difficult to properly see the times you are living through, but it is made more difficult today by the insistence of politicians and comment...

08 dec 11

THE GHOST OF THE COLONELS

In the present crisis over Greece there is a furious argument about whether the Greek people should be allowed to vote on the proposed solution. Many of the voices against this come fr...

03 nov 11

DREAM ON

 HOW THE LEFT GOT TRAPPED INSIDE THEIR OWN HEADS - AND HOW FAIRIES CAN OPEN THE DOOR TO THE FUTURE The protest movement that began with Occupy Wall Street is very clear about what it is against ...

30 okt 11

THE CURSE OF TINA PART TWO

LEARNING TO HUG Everywhere on television today people hug and burst into tears. It happens in drama a lot - but it has completely taken over factual programmes too. It usually comes at the end when t...

04 okt 11

THE PERPLEXING POLITICIAN

Ive found a great party game from the 1920s which I thought might help pass the time at the political party conferences. It is called The Perplexing Politician - A Game Which Has Nothing To Do W...

19 sep 11

THE CURSE OF TINA

The guiding idea at the heart of todays political system is freedom of choice. The belief that if you apply the ideals of the free market to all sorts of areas in society, people will be liberated fr...

13 sep 11

THE TERRIFYING GANGS OF ENGLAND

In the immediate aftermath of the riots there is a media fascination with the terrifying "feral" youth and the gangs who were behind the looting and the violence. But this fear and fascinatio...

20 aug 11

EVERY DAY IS LIKE SUNDAY

THE DOWNFALL OF A PRESS BARON As we wait to see whether Rupert Murdoch will fall from power and lose control of News International, I thought I would tell the extraordinary and forgotten story of the...

27 jul 11

BETWEEN THE GUTTER AND THE STARS

Ever since I read the early part of Sharon Osbournes autobiography I have wanted to make a film about the wonderful, odd culture of the British music industry. She writes vividly about her father who...

07 jul 11

THE BABY AND THE BAATH WATER

What is happening in Syria feels like one of the last gasps of the age of the military dictators. An old way of running the world is still desperately trying to cling to power, but the underlying fee...

16 jun 11

ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE

Heres a slightly longer trail. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions. If youre reading via RSS, youll need...

10 maj 11

FORTHCOMING ATTRACTION

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions. If youre reading via RSS, youll need to visit the blog to access th...

28 apr 11

GOODIES AND BADDIES

The idea of "humanitarian intervention" which is behind the decision to attack in Libya is one of the central beliefs of our age. It divides people. Some see it as a noble, disinterested use ...

28 mar 11

A IS FOR ATOM

I am sorry I havent put anything up recently. I have been busy finishing a new series of films for BBC-2 As a background to the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant I am putting up a...

16 mar 11

SADATS DAT

Very few people in the west saw the present revolutions in the Arab world coming. I think one of the main reasons is that we are still locked into a simplified way of looking at the Arab countries - ...

21 feb 11

RUPERT MURDOCH - A PORTRAIT OF SATAN

Rupert Murdoch doesnt like the BBC And sometimes the BBC doesnt seem to like Rupert Murdoch either. Following the principle that you should know your enemy, the BBC has assiduously recorded the relen...

30 jan 11

DAVID DIMBLEBY AND THE PANDAS OF DOOM

Here are two films for the holiday. One is a film made by a young David Dimbleby about a group of 500 British ballroom dancers on an ocean cruise in the summer of 1973. The second film tells the hist...

23 dec 10

WICKED LEAKS

Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst who is alleged to have leaked the thousands of state department cables, has often been compared to Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Bu...

17 dec 10 1 person likes this

THE OFFICE PARTY

Here is a lovely documentary made in 1969 about that years Christmas office party at a London advertising agency. Ive used shots from it in the past - but Ive always loved it as a film - so I thought...

08 dec 10

FROM PIGEON TO SUPERMAN AND BACK AGAIN

I am fascinated by the group David Cameron has set up in No.10, called The Behavioural Insights Unit. I think it is evidence of a massive shift that is just beginning in British politics which will c...

16 nov 10 1 person likes this

LADAS THEME

We live in a time when all elites, whether on the left or the right, believe in rigid rules that say there is no alternative to the present political and economic system.  The latest rule is: yo...

28 okt 10

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