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Posted: Fri – February 20, 2009 at 07:45 PM
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Reading & watching- SBS On Demand: The Witnesses / 8 Zeugen (Jörg Lühdorff & Christian Rohde 2021?) 22 September 2021Alexandra Maria Lara is an academic psychologist who specialises in memory research. often called on as an expert witness to challenge eyewitness's memories, she is called on to directly interview the witnesses of an abduction. It's very good, appropriately suspenseful, with a satisfying final twist.
- Sex Education Series 3 (Laurie Nunn 2021) 22 September 2021This series gets away with extraordinarily explicit sexual content by being consistently intelligent and funny. It looks oddly transatlantic to this Australian viewer – neither UK nor US culturally – but I'm glad there's to be a fourth season.
- Amnesty (Aravind Adigo 2020) 17 September 2021My town seen through the eyes of an Indian novelist.
- The Victim (Rob Williams 2019) 17 September 2021A Scottish crime drama that hinges on a court case. A woman whose nine-year-old son was hideously murdered by a 13-year-old posts on Facebook a photo of a man she believes to be the murderer. The man is brutally attacked by someone who has seen the post, and now she is on trial for instigating attempted murder.
- SBS: Strong Female Lead (Tosca Looby & Rachel Grierson-Johns 2021) 13 September 2021A documentary about Julia Gillard's time as Prime Minister of Australia, in the context of other women who have been in top leadership positions, beginning with Sirimavo Bandaranaike in Sri Lanka in 1960 and ending with Kamala Harris. The doco focuses on the extraordinary sexism directed at Gillard. None of it is news, but it's extraordinary seein […]
- SBS On Demand: The Witnesses / 8 Zeugen (Jörg Lühdorff & Christian Rohde 2021?) 22 September 2021
