BBC2: Storyville: Eliot Spitzer

[Mark Gobell]

The excellent Storyville has another interesting program this evening:

Storyville: Client 9: The Call Girl and the Governor (2010)

BBC2 London 11:20pm-12:50am (1 hour 30 minutes) Wed 14 Mar 2012

Documentary following the rise and fall of American politician Eliot Spitzer. As attorney general for New York state, he made his reputation prosecuting financial crimes on Wall Street and went on to become governor, before a sex scandal brought his career to an abrupt end. Featuring interviews with Spitzer, colleagues, friends and political adversaries


Storyville

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Dubbed the Sheriff of Wall Street, Eliot Spitzer made his name as New York's attorney general, prosecuting criminal activity by America's largest financial institutions and some of the most powerful businessmen in the country. When he was then elected New York governor with the largest margin in the state's history, many believed Spitzer was on his way to becoming the nation's first Jewish president.

Then, shockingly, his meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when the New York Times revealed that Spitzer - a paragon of rectitude - had been seeing prostitutes. With unprecedented access to the escort world as well as friends, colleagues and enemies of the ex-governor, Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney explores the hidden contours of this tale of hubris, sex and power.


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Also:

"Yesterday" Channel 9pm tonight: Conspiracy Files: 9/11 Ten Years On

Mike Rudin junk TV

and:

Osama bin Laden: The Last Days

Peter Bergen investigates Osama bin Laden's life in hiding, interviewing CIA director David H Petraeus, who reveals how intelligence to launch the raid against the al-Qaeda leader was gathered. The journalist reveals how bin Laden was desperate for money, living in poverty, and how he even plotted to kidnap foreigners for cash

Reporter Peter Bergen (IMDB)

National Geographic 9:00pm-10:00pm (1 hour ) Wed 14 Mar




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