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New BBC Drama on the Dangers of the Database State

 
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:10 am    Post subject: New BBC Drama on the Dangers of the Database State Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

However there is this on the Radio Times site:

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On the evidence of the first episode of Peter Berry's political thriller, viewers would be well advised to leave a trail of breadcrumbs as they follow the byzantine twists of the plot. Just in case they get lost. Yes, it's a real slog. The Last Enemy is one of those dramas that does a pretty good job of almost convincing you that it's really clever stuff because not only is it excessively complicated, it's also packed with zeitgeist-y elements - oppressive CCTV surveillance, isometric ID cards, curtailed freedoms. But there should be more to a political drama than characters looking worried as they hover in front of computer monitors. Berry's script does lead us down some dark paths, though, as it posits a Britain, probably not too far in the future, whose population is held in a stranglehold of mass authoritarian government surveillance. Benedict Cumberbatch impresses as Stephen Ezard, a maths wizard who returns home after the death of his aid worker brother to become embroiled in some kind of conspiracy involving a deadly disease and sinister plans for an all-encompassing database of the British population.

RT reviewer - Alison Graham

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What businesses are Marsh & McLennan in? I used to maintain the data center for a company that served as a clearing house for medical insurance records. And then there are banks....
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