New BBC Drama on the Dangers of the Database State

[Ravenmoon]

SET YOUR VIDEO - NEW BBC DRAMA ON THE DANGERS OF THE DATABASE STATE

This Sunday, 17th February, at 9pm BBC One begins a new five-part thriller based in the database state. 'The Last Enemy', starring Robert Carlyle and Benedict Cumberbatch, is set in the near future where ID cards and government control through centralised databases is a reality.

The series is a great opportunity to open discussion and debate about the future we are hurtling towards. We encourage you to get your friends, family and colleagues to watch it. Talk about it with them. Point out how close the database state really is. As the programme's writer Peter Berry says in this week's Radio Times, "everything that happens in episode one is absolutely conceivable now".

The dystopian vision portrayed in 'The Last Enemy' may be enough to convince people you know that they should do something to stop it.

If you have already made the NO2ID Pledge*, or even if you haven't yet, you should encourage them to make it too. Get them to join NO2ID - http://www.no2id.net/getInvolved/join.php - or get involved in a local group.

This week's media scramble on the Unique Learner Number and lifelong retention of children's records shows that all too often the mainstream wakes up too late. We need to keep campaigning to ensure that 'The Last
Enemy' remains fiction not fact.

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* The NO2ID Pledge - http://www.no2id.net/pledge/ - is an entirely lawful public declaration that you personally will be taking a stand against ID cards and the database state.

[Newspeak International]

The Freeview programme guide gives no hint of any of that Rave:

The Last Enemy
1/5.Drama series.Reclusive mathematician Stephen Ezard returns to England to attend the funeral of his brother Michael,an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan.

[Newspeak International]

However there is this on the Radio Times site:

[Alulim]

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