S2.E1 ∙ Extreme Dieting

An X-ray on the failed 2002 Venezuelan Oil trike.

A single mother's prayer for her 3 year old daughter is that she 'will be what she was born to be, free and independent'. But how can she be free, knowing what she knows about the world and the way in which it operates? 'How can we the beneficiaries of oppression and the perpetrators of injustice ever be truly free'?

Grandma Susu (80), her daughter Doaa (50), and her grandchild Saad (16) are forced to flee the Syrian civil war and live in diaspora, united by the desire to return home.

It was 1917 and Tom French was at the top of his game, literally. But that was before the Maori All Black lost his arm, amputated after shrapnel from the German guns ripped through it. Four days later, almost three thousand other young kiwis would be killed or wounded during the Battle of Passchendaele, a disastrous campaign flawed by inept leadership. But the greatest tragedy is not the loss of so many young lives; it is that so many New Zealanders today remain ignorant to the sacrifice made that day. A sacrifice, revered in Belgium, that should also be significant in New Zealand, but it isn't. There is a strong perception if you talk about the Great War, for us now, it starts and ends at Gallipoli. The reality is Gallipoli was just a side show. Yet there are those in our community who know nothing of Passchendaele and few young people who understand the price our country paid for its nationhood there. That is a legacy that needs to be put right. This, then, is the story of 'Our Bloodiest Day'.

A diary. An eye witness account to an atrocity. A witness that is part of the atrocity. An account of despair. A despair without hope. A hope for revenge. A curse.

Tells the story of World War II British special forces units whose lightly armed jeeps penetrated deep behind enemy lines conducting reconnaissance and sabotage missions