S3.E3 ∙ The Swords of Castillon

41 Dancers. 10 Performances. 104 Rehearsals. 473 Costumes. 2,197 Miles. One incredible year! Spend a year with the girls of Nova Jazz.

Ever since King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, the official explanation had been simply that the government disapproved of his marriage to a twice-divorced woman. However newly-released documents, embargoed until recently, suggest that Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang, played a large part in a plan to make certain that Edward VIII abdicated, not only because of his marriage to a divorcee but also because the archbishop disapproved of the King's whole lifestyle and modern attitudes to life.

In the early hours of New Years' Day 1998, Olivia Hope and Ben Smart boarded a yacht. They were never seen again. Doubt re-examines the case from a fresh perspective. What if Watson didn't do it?

The suffering of women who spend their lives working in fields, forests and meadows without rest or respite in the Black Sea region is the subject of the documentary. Revealing this difficult life to the outside world, the film takes its name from the subject, Ifakat, who was the victim of an unsolved murder with her two daughters in an alpine meadow house. There are 120 houses in the village, which are located 2,000 meters above sea level. The men of the village leave for big cities and other countries to earn money, which makes the situation more difficult for women in the village. Women are the only permanent inhabitants. There are neither proper roads nor electricity, and the village has no considerable economic activity.

Sport and politics most definitely do mix in this gripping look back at a brutal and turbulent time for New Zealand rugby, told from the point of view of the players themselves including David Kirk and Buck Shelford.