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In addition, the BBC's business unit has produced four programmes
that look at the international pension's crisis like Paying For
Old Age, the battle between Europe's low-cost airlines; Battle
For The Skies, corporate crime in the United States; How
The Mighty Fall, and the struggling economies of France and
Germany;The Poor Men Of Europe.
A year-end edition of the talk show Hardtalk sees the host
Tim Sebastian revisiting his interviews with the master of Cold
War spy thrillers John le Carre, who explained his grave concerns
about the conflict in Iraq, and the man who planned and carried
out the invasion, General Tommy Franks. There is Hugh Thompson,
the helicopter pilot who rescued Vietnamese women and children before
they were murdered by American soldiers in the Mai Lai massacre
of 1968 hero from the My Lai massacre, and Khalid Mishaal, one of
the leaders of the Palestinian organisation Hamas, who seeks to
justify suicide bombers, informs the media release.
The Sport Today will have five programmes reviewing the
major sporting events of the year in chronological order, with presenters
Rob Bonnet, Adnan Nawaz, Mike Bushell, Mary Rhodes and Chris Hollins.
It was the year of the Olympic Games in Athens, a surprise Greek
victory in the European football championships in Portugal, Roger
Federer's domination of men's tennis and the Boston Red Sox winning
baseball's World Series after 86 years of trying. There's also a
sixth edition with David Brenner that predicts some of the stories
that will make the headlines in 2005.
Akhtar Khan and the Fast Track travel team revisit reports
they've filed from countries as diverse as Bosnia, Finland, Syria
and Vietnam. They went bungee jumping in Queenstown, New Zealand,
the world's extreme sports capital, where tourists outnumber residents
by 100 to one, and gauged the effect that fluctuating oil prices
were having on fares for air passengers. They're taken on a tour
of New York by a talking car, and mark the gradual demise of one
of London's best-known visitor attractions, the Routemaster bus.
BBC World's technology show Click Online, presented by Stephen
Cole, has a two-part retrospective including interviews with the
scientists who created a coat that makes its wearer invisible, and
asks whether watching television on mobile phones will soon be a
widespread practice. On the 150th anniversary of the Met Office
in Britain, there's a look at how computers are making the weather
easier to forecast, and an explanation of the ways in which governments
around the world are working to make the Internet safer for its
users.
And in the film based Talking Movies, presenter Tom Brook
lists his top 10 releases from a year that saw success for Chinese
films such as Hero and House Of Flying Daggers, and
for sequels including Spider-Man 2 and The Bourne Supremacy.
However many big budget films didn't do as well as expected. Examples
are Alexander ,Sky Captain and The Polar Express,.
However animated movies such as Shrek 2 and The Incredibles
were big box office hits. Music, historical epics and religion were
also popular themes, as Talking Movies explains in its review
of the year.
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