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Welcome to Binge Watch the podcast where we
take a look at the hottest new TV and film

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releases on streaming television platforms.
I'm Hannah Fernando, the group editor of Woman

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and Woman at Home magazine. And I'm Ian McEwan.
And today we're looking at the new releases

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that will be available on Friday, the 21st of
February 2025, including Stephen Knight's new

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period boxing drama, A Thousand Blows on Disney
Plus and Robert De Niro. Netflix thriller Zero

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Day.

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And we'll also be checking out documentary series
Escaping Utopia on iPlayer and the return of

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muscle-bound crime fighter Reacher on Prime
Video. Well it's a strong week this week. We've

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got two impressive new drama series, a returning
favourite drama series and a recommended documentary

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series as well. So we're going to start on Netflix
with a new thriller. which arrived on Thursday

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the 20th of February. It's called Zero Day.
And here's a clip. 3,402 people died.

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on zero day. Absolute nationwide terror. Computer
systems completely hijacked. A significant

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number of casualties. Every phone in America
displayed the same haunting message. This will

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happen again. Six episodes of this one and the
headline news is, well, it stars Robert De

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Niro in his TV debut. Incredible. He's heading
up a pretty stellar cast. That includes Joan

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Allen, Lizzie Kaplan, Dan Stevens, also Jesse
Plemons, and De Niro stars as George Mullen,

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who is a former US president. And the title
Zero Day, it comes from this cyber attack,

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which we see in episode one, which takes down
lots and lots of computer systems so that the

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planes are falling out of the skies. Trains
are crashing, traffic lights are failing. So

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there's a lot of fatalities and confusion and
disaster. And no one knows who's caused it,

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but as part of the attack, this message comes
up on everyone's phone saying, this will happen

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again. We see the former president visiting
one of the sites where a lot of people have

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died and the bystanders, giving the emergency
services a lot of grief. And he kind of steps

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in and makes this very rousing speech, George
Mellon, saying, you know, we need to all stick

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together, you know, we need to protect our values
against this threat. This is the time, you

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know, for us not to be attacking each other,
but to be supporting each other. Some of films

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there, of course it goes viral. And before you
know it, the current president, Angela Bassett,

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who's done lots of great things, including playing
Tina Turner in the biopic What's Love Got to

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Do With It? Well, she invites him for a meeting
and asks him to oversee a task force or a commission

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that will investigate what's happened and will
have sweeping powers. But the question is,

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well, why has she selected him? Is it a poison
chalice? He's getting advice from various people,

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including Plemmons as his rather ambitious advisor,
from his family. Is it a good idea for him

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to take this on? That's the big question, and
that's what he's weighing up by the end of

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episode one. So there's a great moment in the
first episode where De Niro's character is

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just watching the news unfolding of this crisis,
and so the camera is just face-on to De Niro,

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who's staring into it. And it's absolutely gripping
because he's still got this amazing presence

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and charisma. And he's great in this. It's a
proper grown up thriller, political thriller.

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I really enjoyed episode one and I will be watching
the rest. What do you think, Hannah? Yeah,

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it is good. I mean, you've got to watch it with
De Niro in there, haven't you? Although I was

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reading the interview in one of your TV titles.
where they asked him why he was interested

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in doing something like this. And he said, I
was talking to my agent about doing something

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in New York so I could stay at home. And I asked
him if he could find something, maybe a limited

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series that would film over five or six months.
And he introduced me to this. So he started

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sending me episodes and every few weeks and
that was it. I was in. And I just think it

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was like brilliant. That's kind of like, yeah,
that suits me. That's fun. Of course, it is

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absolutely great. I mean, the premise of this
is kind of. a little bit close to home at the

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moment in some ways, isn't it? I think this
kind of idea of absolute power and being able

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to do whatever you want with it and him coming
back in and having to make really difficult

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decisions when he's in retirement, but absolutely
required in this situation. It is different

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actually, which I think is nice to see because
each week we come and talk about different

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series or docu-series. that this feels like
it offers something a little bit different

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and a huge talent of course in De Niro. We move
across to Disney Plus for our second new drama

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series, which arrived on Friday the 21st of
February. It's called A Thousand Blows. And

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here's a clip. London, the lion's den. I'm no
reviewer raised here. All you just got here,

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you learned a fire.

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Yes, so this is a new Disney Plus drama and
it's, I think they're throwing quite a bit

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of cash at this I reckon. It's called A Thousand
Blows and it takes you right back to the very

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brutal world of bare knuckle boxing in Victorian
London. Now, I'm not a huge fan of boxing anyway,

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you know, when you buy it and you kind of...
like you have to watch it because everyone

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stayed up to watch it, I will, but it just feels
incredibly brutal and barbaric to a bystander

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like myself. However, this takes it to another
level. Bare knuckle boxing is just, as you

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can imagine, pretty grim and it's exactly that
in this. If you're a bit phobic of blood, it's

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not for you. This is headed up by Stephen Graham,
who you will remember from Peablinder's. And

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it's kind of, I suppose it's something that
he wanted to be involved in. His wife suggested

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that Peablinder's, the creator of Peablinder,
Steven Knight, would want to be involved in

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it. And she sort of suggested that would be
a good thing. He went and did it. And of course,

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yep, there they were. And now they've got the
script and now it's happening and now we're

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watching it. And it's- You can see that there's
a sort of a wealth of skill set, I suppose,

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of something like this, because you'd have to
do a fair amount of going back and checking

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how things were and ensuring that everything
was kind of accurate. But running through this

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is another storyline. So it's not just that
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going on. It's also the women involved, you
know, as well, and the kind of the relationships

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that are going on. behind everything because
of course this is making money and you need

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to be the best at all times and you can't falter,
the cash doesn't come in. As I say, there's

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lots of relationships going on in the background
and it feels, it's a really solid, I think,

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narrative throughout it. There isn't any sort
of any way you think, oh, that storyline's

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a bit rubbish or that shouldn't really happen.
It feels really well thought out. I don't know

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what you think Ian, but I mean, for me, it's
not something that I would necessarily turn

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to watch because of the content, but actually
it's pretty captivating once you start. Well,

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by coincidence, this very morning I was watching
a screener of an upcoming Netflix crime drama

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called Adolescence, which is co-written by and
stars, Stephen Graham, and he co-wrote that

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with Jack Thorne. the award-winning writer.
Well this has been written by Stephen Knight

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who's a rather prolific writer isn't he? Probably
best known for Peaky Blinders so you'd think

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well if anyone's a good pick to do a Victorian
boxing drama he's your man and he does a great

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job with this but he's also done Taboo. He did
that very good series. about the Scar Band

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called This Town, SAS Rogue Heroes, which I've
been binging my way through recently. So yeah,

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he's done loads of stuff for TV and for film.
And yeah, he really shows his class with this

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because although it's about bare knuckle fighting,
and I'm no fan of watching people getting pummelled

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on screen, there's a lot going on. There are
lots of really interesting storylines that

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interconnect and strong characters, and you
care about all of them. and it kicks off, it's

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set in the 1880s, and these two lads arrive
from Jamaica. Haseekia, played by Malachi Kirby,

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and Alec, played by Francis Lovehall, come to
London to sort of make their fortune, and Haseekia

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in particular wants to be a lion tamer, but
they've got no money, it's quite a racist society,

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so they can't get any lodgings, and that's how
they sort of fall into this world of bare-knuckle

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boxing. You've got Danny Mays with very good
facial hair, who's sort of like the MC introducing

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the bouts. And Stephen Graham plays this boxer
who is the king of the ring really, Sugar Goodson.

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Erin Doherty who appears with Graham in adolescence.
Well she is really good in this. She plays

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this woman called Mary Carr who genuinely did
exist who was... the head of a gang of female

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pickpockets, but she has plans to do something
a little bit more ambitious. So yeah, I mean

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he's packed plenty into Episode 1. It's fascinating.
It moves quickly, the sets look great, and

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it's just got a terrific cast, and it's very
well written. So, yes, another winner from

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Mr. Stephen Knight. Over on Prime Video. arriving
on Thursday the 20th of February. We have the

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return of the drama series, Reacher. And here's
a clip. Mr. Reacher, we're looking into the

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owner of a rug import business called Bazaar
Bazaar. Let me guess, DEA thinks we've seen

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business with bad people. You know him? I thought
I killed him years ago. What did he do to you?

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He didn't do anything to me. maybe we can help
each other out. This is season three or series

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three, as we say in the UK. Eight episodes,
three will drop initially and then it's weekly.

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Reacher, as he likes to be known, or Jack Reacher
to give him his full name. Well, he's been

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played on the big screen by Tom Cruise, which
is quite surprising because Jack Reacher is

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supposed to be a great big hulking guy. He's
a former military police officer. and a bit

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of a drifter really, just wandering from town
to town. In this incarnation he's played by

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Alan Richson who I did meet to talk to when
series one aired and he is a big lad. Anyway,

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for those who are as old as me it's got a bit
of that sort of Incredible Hulk type vibe in

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that it's about a drifter arriving in a new
place. getting involved with some new characters

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and probably some crime, some bad guys, overcoming
adversity and then moving on. Although there

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is a sort of story arc across this whole season.
So in this one, it kicks off, yeah, Reacher

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blows into town and he witnesses an attempted
abduction and of course being a man of action,

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steps in and foils it. Turns out it's the sum
of a wealthy businessman. who is the target

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for the abduction. And I'm not gonna go into
too much detail, but Richard gets involved

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with the boy's father, Zachary Beck, who is
supposedly a carpenter in Porto, who's very

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rich, played by Anthony Michael Hall, who of
course was a teenage star in films such as

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National Lampoon's Vacation with Chevy Chase,
Weird Science, and the Breakfast Club. Yeah.

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So I didn't recognize him but there he is. He's
very good. And also, Reacher is going to come

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up against a formidable foe, a bearded bodyguard,
okay, who is played by, he's called Paulie,

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and he's played by a Dutch bodybuilder called
Olivier Richters who is, he is huge. I mean

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he literally normally gets cast as a giant.
So yeah, it's interesting to see Reacher being

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dwarfed by this absolutely incredible Hulk.
Anyway, so I liken Reacher a bit to just watching

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the beginning of Rambo First Blood over and
over again because he tends to arrive in town

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and he often comes up against law enforcement
or baddies. And he didn't say much, but there

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comes a reckoning because of his training. So
yeah, I really like Reacher. He's a creation

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of Lee Child, the pen name of Jim Grant. And
the books are massively popular. And these

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days, Jim co-writes them with his brother, Andrew.
So yeah, I mean, if you like Reacher, the films,

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or if you've watched the previous series of
this, you're going to enjoy it. It absolutely

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delivers. I think it's great. What do you think,
Hannah? There's a lot of fighting this week,

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isn't there, Ian? A lot of fighting, but that's
the theme. Yeah, do you know what? There's

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a reason it's continuing, isn't it? It's so
incredibly popular. And I don't know, everyone

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that's in this kind of absolutely believes in
it. I think it feels really authentic because

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of that. And the fighting, I think, reading
again, one of your interviews. It doesn't,

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it's not always, you know, quite often catch
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So it's not just, it's not just planned fighting,
which is good because I think they put, they

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put everything into it, which is why it's so
effective. I mean, I don't know that it's,

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I love, I particularly love it because of that.
I'm not, I don't kind of like that kind of

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physicality, but I can see why it's so, why
people like it so much. And, and this series

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doesn't disappoint. We're going to finish on
BBC iPlayer with a new three-part documentary

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series that arrived on Sunday the 16th of February.
It's called Escaping Utopia and here's a clip.

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In Glowival it's protected. We are the chosen
ones. We are the people of God. We were told

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this is what we're protecting you from. We've
taken you out of this evil wicked world.

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cross this bridge and you've lost your soul.
And that's the psychological prison. Yeah.

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So this really gets, well, it certainly got
the hairs on the back of my neck are standing

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up because it was just, it's just very, very
creepy because these kinds of things exist.

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And this is essentially a documentary, which
it- It looks into escaping and interviewing

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people who've already broken free from a compound
called Gloria Vale. And it was set up, in fact,

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one of the people interviewed, his father is
the guy that set it up and their whole methodology.

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is based on religion. Of course, this is not
the first of its kind and won't be the last.

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The idea is that the men are the superior sex
and the women are there to service men and

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to have children. If they don't, they are going
to be going against the Lord and hell hath

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no fury and they will end up there. And it's
sort of, you know, there's one interview with

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one of these guys who just says, this is, I
think he was in his thirties, I'm trying to

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remember his name. He's interviewed and he wants
to leave. He now, him and his wife were both

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born in there. They've known nothing else. And
this is what interests me about this because

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I'm kind of going everywhere because it's just,
it's so interesting. But these two people.

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have never known anything else, and yet he's
questioning it. And the reason, and it's kind

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of weird, because you think you'd be so consumed
by that, that you wouldn't know any different,

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but they have three children expecting their
fourth, because part of this cult is, if I

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can call it that, is the idea that you keep
having children, that is exponential in terms

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of growth and reproduction. So. They've got
three children, one on the way, and they're

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questioning the safety of their own children
because he says that he was abused when he

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was a child and he doesn't want that to happen
to his children. But it's not a case of just

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being able to up and even it splits couples
because one of you will go like, I'm ready

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to go and just walk away. A, it's not that easy,
but B, the other person doesn't want to because

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they don't want that eternal damnation from
the Lord and going to hell. And so... It's

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just the music, the way this has all been put
together, there's so, so much. It's hard to

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kind of, for them to pull it all into, into
the time that they've got to do this. But it's

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one, as I say, one of many, it won't be, it's
not the first, and it certainly won't be the

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last. But there are, there is footage of some
of these kind of assemblies, I suppose, where

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they talk, where women are just there to service.
the men under the guise that they're, you know,

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very peaceful creatures and kind creatures and
they look after us and the narrative is really

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quite frightening that this could happen. So
you can't show as a woman, you can't show anything.

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You can't show your hair. You have to wear something
that covers your hair. You're told if you're

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showing your ankles or I think it's your elbows,
I say at one point you are leading a man on,

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you mustn't do that. It's really unbelievable
to think this sort of thing exists, but it

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absolutely does. And as I say, I think it's
really been done quite well in terms of the

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sort of maybe that I was thinking at one point,
are they over egging this with the music and

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the sort of creepy, but actually they're not
because it is just feels very, very creepy.

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What do you think, Ian? Yes, I'm always really
interested in these documentaries about cults

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or strange communities. I wasn't familiar with
this one. Gloria Vale in a remote part of New

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Zealand, which was founded by this guy called
Neville Cooper. But it's a depressingly familiar

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story in that, at the head of these secretive
organizations, there's usually some pervy guy

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who basically wants to prey on people sexually.
And so it proves to be in Gloria Vale, because

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we hear... There's lots of disturbing things
that we hear, but among them are the fact that...

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He would kind of give these sex demonstrations
where he would encourage lots of couples to

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make love all together in one room. He encouraged
kids to get naked with their parents. It's

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all very creepy. And yeah, as you say, the women
weren't allowed to expose any flesh because

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obviously men cannot control their urges. And
they were cut off from the outside world. In

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fact, At one point in episode one they talk
about the fact that the women used to light

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the fires using newspapers, but when they discovered
that they were reading the newspapers they

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would censor them and cut out any stories that
they thought might be threatening to the community

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and to these poor brainwashed people's view
of their lives. And interestingly it's a son

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of Neville Cooper who left the community and
has now dedicated himself to... helping people

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to leave. So, as I say, depressingly familiar
tale, but a very interesting one. Yeah. I found

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it a gripping watch. Now we've got to that time
Hannah, where we find out what the heck you've

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been binge watching this week. Well, we talked
about it last week. I continued to watch it

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this week and that is Catherine Ryan. and watching
her therapy. And you're so right, Ian, when

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you say, like she takes him to therapy and it
turns out everything's wrong with her and not

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him actually. And this is the episode where
daughter Violet bought, I mean, she's 15, right?

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She bought a cat and brought it home, even though
mom said no. And they don't really know what

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to do about that. On Netflix, I've been watching
a very good period western called American

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Primeval, which is about this woman trying to
locate her husband on the wild frontier and

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running the gauntlet of Mormon militia and Native
American Indians, and just people who are out

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for whatever they can get. It's a pretty unforgiving
time and place. And it's slightly got the vibe

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of the film, The Revenant, starring Leonardo
DiCaprio. And yeah, I would highly recommend

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that. Well worth a look. I mean, it is quite
violent and shocking, but it's very well done.

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Now we've just got time to look ahead to next
week's offerings. So what's on the agenda,

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Brenda? Well, my friend, Kate Hudson takes over
a basketball team in the Netflix comedy, Running

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Point. And one of my favorites, Mr. Dave Gorman.
Well, he is back on You with a new series of

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his standup show. modern life is goodish. So
we look forward to those and much, much more.

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But in the meantime, listeners. ["Watching You
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