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Wildlife on One: Reef Encounter

20/02/1997

Reef Encounter

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An insight into the lives of the creatures that inhabit the coral reef of Sipadan, Borneo.

An insight into the lives of the turtles and other creatures that inhabit the coral reef of Sipadan, Borneo, where fish throw stones, crabs fish with nets and jack chase after sharks.

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The Century of the Self: Episode 4: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

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Episode 4: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

The Century of the Self

Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

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A look at psychoanalytic techniques used by western political powers to gain power.

This episode looks at how both the UK Labour Party and US Democrats have used psychoanalytic techniques - namely, focus groups - to mislead and gain power over the masses.

This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfil the inner desires of the self.

Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, used the focus group, which had been invented by psychoanalysts, in order to regain power. They set out to mould their policies to people's inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism had learnt to do with products.

Out of this grew a new culture of public relations and marketing in politics, business and journalism. One of its stars in Britain was Matthew Freud who followed in the footsteps of his relation, Edward Bernays, the inventor of public relations in the 1920s.

The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of individual. But what they didn't realise was that the aim of those who had originally created these techniques had not been to liberate the people but to develop a new way of controlling them.

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Adam Curtis examines how Freudian theory influenced twentieth century society.

Documentary series by Adam Curtis examining how Freudian theory influenced twentieth century society.

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