First broadcast 15th April 2009.
Charlie Brooker charts the way the media handled both the politics and the protests of the G20 summit in London, while Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science, vents his anger over the way press covers science stories.
Charlie Brooker
Tim Key
Ben Goldacre
Charlie Brooker charts the way the media handled both the politics and the protests of the G20 summit in London, while Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science, vents his anger over the way press covers science stories.
Charlie Brooker
Tim Key
Ben Goldacre
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00:00Hello, I'm Charlie Brooker and you're watching Newswipe, a programme all about what's been
00:27happening like this. Police caught out by 150-year-old invention called photography.
00:35Newscast from old Godzilla movie announces glorious missile launch orchestrated by Yoda
00:42and brave crew managed to expel unwanted semen. Latest reports suggest they've now beaten off
00:48the pirates. But we're not starting with that, we're starting here. You know how nerve-wracking
00:54it can be hosting a party? First you sit around wondering if anyone's going to show up and then
00:59when they do you've suddenly got to deal with all these disparate groups of bloody friends
01:03you've never met before and you have to make bloody small talk with them all until you lose
01:07all sense of your own identity and then the nerves get to you and you drink too much and you wind up
01:11making an embarrassing bloody spectacle of yourself. Or is that just me? Anyway, the other
01:16week Prime Minister Gordon Brown, or Prime Minister Gordon Brown as we like to call him,
01:21had to throw the most important party of his life, the G20 summit. In case you're wondering,
01:26the G20 actually consists of 29 of the world's largest economies, so it's good to see they can
01:32count. Anyway, these 29 economic groups have banded together to refer to themselves by the
01:37gangster rap nickname of G. Why? Because they think it makes them sound cool. It's grown in
01:43size over the years. Last time it was the G10, before that the G8, the G5 and of course the
01:48worst incarnation, G4, seen here turning T.O.T.P. into an audio blast of silage.
02:03The point of the summit of course was to reach an international consensus on how to save the
02:08world from moneygeddon, the crisis no one really understands. And they possibly don't really
02:13understand it because the experts wheeled out to explain it are so uneasy on the eye it's hard to
02:17listen to what they're saying or even tell them apart. Even Channel 4 News didn't know which ugly
02:22financial bloke to cut to. Hernando de Soto, where are you on fiscal stimulus? Well I think fiscal
02:29stimulus is something that has to be done. And when they do cut to the right one, said expert
02:33tends to say something like, oh it's very simple, and then immediately follow that up by saying
02:37something that doesn't make any sense to human ears. It's very simple. The Bank of International
02:44Settlements recently said that they figured that there was about 1 quadrillion 200 trillion dollars
02:50worth of this paper, which is a semi-liquid paper. What does that mean? Even financial expert Will
02:57Hutton has to laugh nihilistically in the face of this madness. Come the big day itself, the news
03:01solved the problem of keeping the viewer interested in the notoriously dry and impenetrable subject of
03:06global macroeconomics in the simplest way possible, by not really bothering. Instead it largely
03:12concerned itself with repeatedly coming in its pants about Saint and Saint Tessa Bach. Every aspect
03:17of Barack's Guitar Hero World Tour was covered in breathless detail. First GMTV told us he'd arrive
03:24in a flurry of bad clip art. This is like an old Amiga game or something. And Channel 4 News
03:30breathlessly poured over every detail of his Super Knight Rider style Death Race 2000 mega car,
03:35The Beast. On board the car they called The Beast, defense systems are said to include pump action
03:41shotguns, night vision cameras and tear gas cannons. This is basically hardcore pornography
03:46for people who really love cars. The wheels are reportedly Kevlar reinforced with steel rims to
03:52allow driving even without tires. Meanwhile Downing Street did his best to impress Obama
03:57by rolling out the red carpet, even if it did take five British workmen to fit the f***ing thing.
04:02As the next morning dawned, if you tuned into BBC Breakfast looking for local or travel news you
04:06could just about f*** off. If you've just joined us, you're waiting to see your local news and
04:10travel somewhere then apologies but we are following the breaking news story. Because they
04:13were busy training their cameras on a road St Obama might glide down any moment, but didn't.
04:18There is, now they snuck out somehow. Well they must have an invisibility cloak or something like
04:24that I just think. Then there was a series of photo opportunities in which Brown tried to
04:27gesticulate in a commanding way. Oh yes if I wave my hand over here I'll look like a man with vision
04:32and now I'm pointing which is all uh leaderly and stuff. That was followed by a quick press
04:37conference stroke mutual blowjob contest. This sort of resembled a deleted podium love scene
04:42from Brokeback Mountain. Your first 70 days in office have changed America and you've changed
04:48America's relationship with the world. Oh you're wonderful Obama, wonderful. You're to be
04:54congratulated because you have shown extraordinary energy and leadership and initiative in laying the
05:00groundwork for this summit. No we're both wonderful I wish I knew how to quit you. Oh let's just go off
05:06and have a little wrestle hey. Soon after Brown and Barack bigged up the G20 a cloud appeared on
05:12the horizon as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French PM Nicolas Sarkozy, who's been up a
05:17supermodel yet still seems angry, called a press conference of their own with a slightly more
05:22negative hue. This largely consisted of whinging in exotic languages the BBC clearly hadn't expected
05:28them to use. Languages like German and French.
05:35It seems that we may have to leave that for the moment. Fortunately before long the BBC found a
05:41translator, a lady who could undermine Nicolas Sarkozy in an amusing way by giving him a female
05:46voice. Well we're not pointing fingers, we're not fingering anyone. Well that's not very French.
05:52The next day brought the cosmetically boring yet important business of the G20 summit itself held
05:57in the glamorous surroundings of the sexy Excel Centre in London's Docklands. Actually is it just
06:04me or does this footage make it look worryingly like the war room from Stanley Kubrick's marvellous
06:08apocalyptic satire Dr. Strangelove. That is precisely the idea. Disappointingly Sarkozy
06:14didn't storm out going honky honky honk as we've been warned. In fact it was the dullest party ever.
06:20Faced with that tedium thank God for the saintly depiction of God's wife Michelle Obama.
06:24The news just couldn't get enough of her. Now Michelle Obama's been in Britain for barely 36
06:30hours but it seems the nation has already fallen in love with her. Once again she was the bell of
06:35the ball as she out shone the other first ladies at a Downing Street dinner last night. There she
06:39is looking gorgeous. She just gets it right every time Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama you know Barack
06:45I don't know who I fancy more. She wears so many vibrant colours which again is very brave isn't
06:50it. It's a joy. Oh why don't you both just kiss her while I watch from inside a cupboard. Sky wall
06:56over Michelle Magdalene's visit to a school in Islington to heal the world by hugging it better
07:00one photo opportunity at a time. This was so inspiring the blessed receivers of the bicep
07:05ones embrace were called to the studio the next day to relive the moment. What was she like? She
07:11was absolutely amazing. She really was. She was really pretty and warm and loving and welcoming
07:18and so nice. Anyway once the party itself was over what had been decided? Well no fiscal stimulus
07:26agreement but there was some blar about clamping down on tax havens some regulation and anti
07:30protectionist promises. I want a bit of half-hearted whiffle about the environment which means we're
07:34probably all going to die. Still the main headline was that 1.1 trillion dollars was going to the IMF
07:40to help prevent developing nations and Iceland from collapsing. This was sort of good news for
07:45Gordon Brown who could try and claim it as a victory so he did. This is the day that the world
07:50came together. Yeah on an economic biscuit and then it was all over apart from news footage of world
07:56leaders bagging themselves a fantastic Facebook profile snap in a group shot. Although the group
08:01shot actually had to be taken twice first because the Canadian PM went off for a piss and then
08:06because Italian PM Berlusconi went off for a shit out the window into the Thames like a horse.
08:12Anyway for Gordon Brown at least the G20 will chiefly be remembered for giving him a short-lived
08:16popularity boost. Brown gets a bounce from the G20 summit. Oh brown poll I see it says there
08:23on the screen nothing funny there I'm just pointing it out it says brown poll on the screen.
08:28Brown poll. Brown poll. Lots of important things have happened recently but we're not going to
08:35look at them right now we're going to look at the week in bullshit.
08:42Money Geddon and having failed to depress the nation to death with Dermot's economic cycle
08:47a few weeks back Sky News unveiled their new tactic recession day starring a demoralising
08:52on-screen meter showing how deep in the shit we are. Well you can see it there at the bottom of
08:57your screen our debt counter getting on for 39 million pounds oh dear. And regular updates from
09:04sky faces stationed around the country to show how wretched everything is. The end result was the
09:09most depressing broadcast since that Alan Yentov series about the guitar. The unrelenting misery
09:15kicked off with Eamon Holmes conducting the gloomiest interviews ever. What does it feel
09:19like the struggle? I hate him I really do hate him. Oh this is fun isn't it I'm glad I tuned in.
09:26Why do you hate it how does it make you feel? Frustrated and angry. Oh god do you feel abandoned
09:32I mean tell me what that's like to wake up in the morning you're a dad you look at your little
09:36baby there you obviously can't provide what you want to provide what does that feel like? Already
09:42this is like being trapped in a coffin hearing rain water seeping through the cracks and it's
09:46only 16 minutes past eight in the morning. It's hard really hard. Next Dermot Murnaghan was sent
09:52to Coventry to sing a song of financial woe. The anthem to recession was even written by
09:59Coventry's most famous band. Just to make things worse alongside the economic tragedy the rest of
10:08the surrounding news that day was grim too. Kay Burley did her best to lighten things up but it
10:12didn't really work in fact it ended up being one of the most awkward segues I've ever seen.
10:16A body has been found we're told within the last few moments so we'll get more on that I'll be
10:21telling you more also about why I'm standing in a kitchen. It turns out she was standing there to
10:25do sad interviews about the recession she also killed time wearing a Sontaran costume talking
10:30to some old people patronizing a small man. You didn't expect to be on the telly did you? And dishing out
10:35sexual innuendo to a sweep. I bet you've um cleaned one or two posh chimneys in your time haven't you?
10:41The day dragged on and on with one instance of grinding recessionary despair after another.
10:47I don't know it's just never gonna end. By the end of the day it was also dispiriting even Jeremy
10:54Thompson needed a pint to steady his nerves on air. 203 million that's what the government is
11:01racked up in debt today. Sky actually left the debt counter running for several days until they
11:06gave up trying to work out how much it had racked up. One billion and uh loads. Now health is one of
11:14the most important things you have unless you own a really expensive car but can you trust what the
11:19news has to say about health and science? Well the Daily Express recently claimed that breathing in
11:24can give you a heart attack but what does a real doctor think? Here's journalist Dr Ben Goldacre
11:29of the Bad Science column with his view on the MMR scandal. It's his view. How journalists decide
11:35on what makes a good science story has got very little to do with what's true or what's actually
11:39got any evidence behind it. I think the media's greatest ever science hoax has been the MMR story
11:46something which they almost invented entirely for themselves. The vaccine for measles mumps and
11:50rubella which is given to most children over the age of one has been linked with autism. What was
11:56interesting about Andrew Wakefield's paper in 1998 is it was a case series report it's a perfectly
12:00valid kind of thing to do but it's just a collection of 12 anecdotes written up in a single paper. That
12:06can't tell you anything about a link between MMR and autism simply because MMR and autism are both
12:11very common so to find a few kids who've had both MMR and then gone on to develop autism isn't very
12:17special. I mean that's extraordinary behavior on the part of the media to selectively only cover
12:23dubious worrying evidence whilst totally ignoring all of the reassuring stuff that was fully
12:29published. Even when they're trying to produce sensible news coverage they still insist on doing
12:35everything in the most frightening way they can. In 15 minutes 200 of you emailed us about the vaccine
12:41it's only a straw poll but 182 of you expressed concern or confusion. If you talk to journalists
12:48and say why did you go to town this evidence that was clearly not supporting the hypothesis that MMR
12:54causes autism all they will ever say to you is well there was an expert from a medical school
13:00telling us that this was true. Proper scientists with a good publication record of doing sensible
13:06work were publishing exactly the same kind of research but showing negative results and they
13:12were completely ignored. That was because the story had become a political story more than a science
13:17story. MMR kicked off properly in 2002 when a little boy called Leo Blair became old enough
13:23to have the MMR vaccine. He still won't confirm that his son Leo has had the triple vaccine.
13:28They said at the time that this was because of privacy concerns that we must respect their right
13:33to privacy an argument which is slightly undermined by the fact that Cherry Blair has
13:37now since written in her autobiography about the actual fuck which conceived the child. Once the
13:43story became about Leo Blair it was suddenly the domain of generalist journalists the glamorous
13:49more famous columnists the people who normally would be telling us about a very funny thing the
13:53au pair said on the way to a dinner party were suddenly giving the nation incredibly complex
13:58health advice on matters of immunology and epidemiology. Andrew Wakefield's up in front of
14:03the GMC and an entire nation of journalists are queuing up to blame him one man as the scapegoat
14:09for their crimes and that just goes to show really how little they understand their role in all of
14:16this. For his supporters Andrew Wakefield is a hero and despite prompting a major health scare
14:22he seemed unrepentant. No regrets thank you. The journalist's fantasy about MMR causing autism
14:29has run for 10 solid years. As a concerned citizen there are a million ways to get your voice heard
14:40you can shout out of the window you can share every thought that zips through your bonce with
14:44a million like-minded twits on twitter or you can get your own low budget BBC four show and
14:49sit monotonously blarping words down the lens over and over again until all the viewers at home
14:54switch over to something more entertaining such as Apple Deck senselessly killing a dog or something
14:59but useful though all these platforms are chances are no one's going to take your message seriously
15:04until you gather like-minded people together and march through a major city in your thousands
15:09waving placards and chanting slogans. Protests are effective that's why the Iraq war never happened.
15:15Of course sometimes demonstrations turn unpleasant which is bad news for public order
15:18but a veritable bonanza for news networks and the press. Recently as those world leaders gathered in
15:23London for that G20 party the news excitedly prepared us for the biggest display of public
15:28dissent in years. Not just the biggest but the most varied too. There was a protest for just
15:34about everything anti-capitalism anti-carbon trading anti-war anti-wasps you name it. In fact
15:40there were so many protesters Newsnight had to provide a guide to who they were. There were
15:44knackered looking pacifists the lead singer from the flaming lips the most earnest man in the world
15:50and an anarchist professor. We are not protesting we are overthrowing the government. Yeah though
15:58he seemed a tad less ominous than that when he saw him going down a kiddie slide. So there you go a
16:02varied bunch but still the news was worried. In fact given the tone of some of the pre-emptive
16:07coverage in the press you could have been forgiven for thinking everyone was marching in
16:10favor of simply smashing everything in the world to bits. There were also stories about bankers
16:15being told to dress down although not everyone in the city seemed that bothered. So in no sense
16:20will you allow this process to stop you coming to work. I shall try not to. But where do you work
16:25the 1930s? GMTV kept its viewers informed with a helpful VT in which benevolent stereotypical
16:31crusty environmental types stood around in front of a peace flag patiently responding to questions
16:36about potential trouble. We hope that you know a lot of people come together and create a lot of
16:40change. Not very scary really still at least they didn't try to oomph things up by slapping
16:44together a montage of violent looking protest material backed with I predict a riot by the
16:49kaiser chiefs. They also interviewed this climate change protester who said with the situation of
16:58climate change being as urgent as it is and as important as it is we do think it is acceptable
17:03to sometimes break the law. Now I think when she talks about breaking laws there she's actually
17:08referring to the environmental protesters plan to erect a little temporary tent city in the street.
17:14But GMTV's John Stapleton seemed to take it as a violent anarchist mission statement a point he
17:19repeatedly put to Mark Barrett of the G20 alliance. You're saying let's have a peaceable
17:24protest but as you saw from that young lady at the end there that's not likely to be the case
17:29there is there are people going there intent on causing trouble. To be fair to that lady at the
17:33end she represents the climate camp and they're very much a peaceful movement and they're all
17:36about practical solutions. She's except violence may take place. She didn't say violence she said
17:40she said that to get the ideas into the public realm sometimes we have to do something that's
17:46a little bit different. So I come back to my point violence may occur. It's admirable of GMTV to have
17:50had a totally deaf host. But you know as well as I do that on some websites that there are people
17:55advocating quote burn a banker causing mayhem. Yeah you can't justify that you must accept there
18:00is the risk given the numbers involved and given the sort of language that's been used by some of
18:04the people not your not you personally but other people there is a real risk of this turning into
18:08mayhem lockdown in the city and you know monumental cost of taxpayers. Still in case you weren't put
18:14off by all the continued references to potential violence then hooray. Yes because as well as dire
18:19warnings the papers and the news bulletins were jam-packed with helpful step-by-step advertising
18:23campaigns showing precisely where when and how the massive bloody rucks they were predicting would
18:27take place. Okay so we start there we'll move across the city of London and go there congregate
18:35at the Bank of England and then it kicks off there. Saturday brought a put people first march in which
18:42charity supporters churchgoers concerned citizens and carol of big brother eight demanded an end to
18:48all unpleasantness the news networks covered this patiently. This passed off peacefully but never
18:53mind everyone knew Wednesday was going to be the real flash point. Come financial fool's day itself
18:58the rolling news stations leapt into action prepared to cover every aspect of the demonstrations
19:02windows were boarded up in preparation the news media assembled the horsemen of the apocalypse
19:07cantered into view and the violence began. Not! In fact it all seemed rather cheerful for a while
19:13it was all a bit Glastonbury. Adding to the epic festival vibe Sky News cracked out the skycopter
19:18which hovered around all day zooming in on anything that looked vaguely troublesome a bit like a
19:23gorilla picking through a mate's fur for uppity lice. But why stop with commanding the air when
19:27you can also throw life to the sky boat not the river boat no the sky boat which is like a river
19:33boat but with a rather lost looking poor sod standing in the middle of it. And you can probably
19:38see the first of what looks like banners from the protesters that of course the south end of the
19:43bridge we're right in the middle of the river. Wow what a vantage point that's not. They also had Ian
19:49Woods on the ground in his sky shoes he was moving through the crowd a bit like an uptight businessman
19:55character wandering through a psychedelic party in a happening 60s movie. A movie complete with
20:00unexpected celebrity cameos. Hang on wait a minute wait a minute is that oh is it is it um uh oh it's uh
20:06that's the brand that's it protests. Yes the nation's favorite bearded lexicographer and sex
20:12machine had arrived and was already scanning his surroundings for fresh granddaughters to f**k.
20:16Russell you're live on Sky News at the moment can you just explain why you've come here today
20:19which issue angers you? I ain't angry. No aren't you? Okay uh tell us about your din call. So why come?
20:27I live here. I thought you lived in Ponderland.
20:32By now the crowds were building and the air began to turn. One of Sky's correspondents
20:37got so excited he ejaculated while on the phone to Dermot Murnaghan.
20:45Somewhere within that crowd he was just telling us his come. Shortly afterwards Tony Benn who
20:50was about to go on an anti-war march to Trafalgar Square offered Dermot a little editorial advice.
20:54The coverage of this if I may make a suggestion to you would be to try to cover some of the
21:00speeches made today otherwise if it's just described as demonstrations scuffles police
21:05traffic uh no one outside will really know what it's really about. Yeah whatever Tony he's kicking
21:11off down the road. Yeah a little later things started looking a touch more feisty although
21:16some of the assembled pundits initially seemed to find it all rather comical. And here we are
21:21with scenes which by and large are more reminiscent of carry on camping. Around this point a bit of
21:25genuine ugliness occurred. Sky captured a sort of ninja protester hitting police with a pole
21:31and another man who appeared to receive a blow to the head. Bleeding from a wound he moved forward
21:35to repeatedly shout at the police. There's a young man quite clearly goading the police. He's getting
21:41very worked up indeed. Shouty McHeadwound man was destined to become the first iconic image of the
21:46protest. This seems to be the ringleader at the moment very keen to get to the front. Clearly this
21:51wasn't very nice but even while this was going on just a short distance away things were so relaxed
21:56Sky's Ian Woods was looking downright bored. Although maybe things had calmed down because
22:00the police had deployed a giant. Meanwhile on the BBC there was a chance to see a small group
22:05of people possessed by demons and take a look at some exciting anti-establishment graffiti.
22:11Now if you just take a quick look behind me on the walls of the Bank of England
22:15I think you can probably see where protesters have been scrawling graffiti slogans like money
22:21is for losers and property is theft. Don't stop the bullshit go back it said stop the bullshit go
22:27on read it out. A bit later after that a few headstrong protesters who the police had kettled
22:33in near an undefended branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland started smashing windows. Predictably
22:38this became the second iconic image of the protests. It was certainly captured on enough
22:42cameras. Honestly with all the lenses swarming around you'd have thought Paris Hilton's vagina
22:46was smashing the bank up. Despite these flurries of violence while it was happening the reporters
22:53were still keen to get across how peaceful the majority of the demonstration was. Having said
22:58that they still didn't really broadcast those speeches Tony Benn was so keen on. They got
23:02mentioned in split screen but that was about it. Compare that with the scene a few days later where
23:07speeches from Jade Goody's funeral ceremony were broadcast at length. You made me feel so special
23:13and soothed away my fears. But then she's famous what are you gonna do? Anyway as far as the protests
23:19went throughout the day the news did a fair job of contrasting the ugly bits with the more pleasant
23:24bits. Especially from the sky boat where it was completely tranquil. There's been very little to
23:29show that there's even been a demonstration here. If Richie just points up at the building
23:33you can see that there's the smash capitalism banner that's been up there all day but apart
23:39from that absolutely nothing else. By the evening bulletins however something had changed. The events
23:45of the day had to be compressed which meant even as the voiceover pointed out the majority of the
23:49protesters were peaceful. Meanwhile in the city one branch of RBS takes the brunt of what are
23:54mainly peaceful protests. These sensational pictures left a different impression and of
23:59course shouty mchead wound man got a thorough airing. His confrontational moment in the spotlight
24:04was repeated again and again and again. Why he was an overnight sensation. Already he's appearing
24:10on t-shirts being profiled in glossy upbeat celebrity magazines and hey everyone's doing
24:15the shouty mchead wound dance. This seems to be the ringleader at the moment very keen to get to
24:21the front get to the front. There's a young man quite clearly goading the police there.
24:26The guy is bleeding quite heavily from his hand as well. I'm very keen to get to the front.
24:31Obviously dynamic images like these are going to drown out the voice of the peaceful majority
24:35every time confirming the prejudice of many observers in the process. That's certainly what
24:39happened across the pond where on fair and balanced fox news turtle-based unfunny man
24:44Bill O'Reilly shared his opinion of the protesters. Authorities estimate about 4 000 loons are roaming
24:49around London right now. Some of them trying to cause trouble as President Obama and other world
24:55leaders are trying to right the economy. Shouty mchead wound man. From what we've seen there are
25:00basically three groups of loons. Anti-capitalists who want universal communism, environmental
25:05extremists who have a litany of complaints and anti-war folks who want to give peace a chance
25:11while bin laden and his crew cut off people's heads. The next day a huge protest at the excel
25:18center itself turned out to be a damp squid but never mind because the papers were full of
25:22predictable headlines and images of the previous day's violence and buried away within a few reports
25:27on what looked like in news terms a small story. It got a few scant mentions usually alongside talk
25:32of brave police medics doing their job under difficult conditions and here was the irony.
25:37At a public event granted absolute saturation coverage with all the press photographers,
25:42live feed images, sky copters, preposterous sky boats and all the news had missed perhaps the most
25:47important image of the day. In the end it took some old-fashioned investigative reporting and a
25:52member of the public to bring this image to the nation's attention. Disturbing footage of a man
25:56being pushed over by the police. Shortly afterwards he died of a heart attack. In capturing this the
26:01member of the public, ironically a New York fund manager, was technically breaking a law introduced
26:06on February the 16th making it illegal to photograph the police and so was the civilian who took this
26:12charming snap appearing to show a police medic in action. Maybe the baton's full of medicine.
26:21On top of that just before this episode went to air new alarming mobile phone footage came to
26:25light from the following day appearing to show a policeman striking a female protester.
26:31In summary this varied assembly of concerned citizens, some earnest, some violent, some daft,
26:36failed to get its voice heard with much coherence and in the end the story became not about capitalism
26:41or climate change but the succession of ugly images.
26:47The G20 demos didn't just inspire the news they've also inspired a short little
26:51poem from our verse correspondent Tim Key.
26:58Right so this is a poem about the protests on April the 1st you know when everyone went down
27:02and uh it all kicked off a bit in the city. Petal got some metal and smashed a window.
27:15Anil threw his flannel. He's a Hindu.
27:24I suppose it's about the uh everyone was doing it you know everyone just went down there Hindus
27:31uh Christians, skinheads, black, yellow, pink, grey, blue, everyone get get down there and um
27:42as long as you hate the police and banks you're away.
27:50Music and an exciting technical leap forward for everyone.
27:54How would you like to see your favourite band play live right there in your living room?
27:59Oh imagine it the Beatles, the Sex Pistols playing live in my living room.
28:03Please tell me that dream's a little bit nearer today.
28:06That dream is a little bit nearer today.
28:08Yeah!
28:09After Keane played the world's first 3D webcast.
28:13Oh shit I hate this f***ing world.
28:16Yes Keane no one's favourite fair to middling ploddy indie shit spreaders rocked the internet
28:21mildly with a gig that brought their two-dimensional music kicking and
28:24screaming into the three-dimensional realm and you can see here just how exciting it was.
28:29I'm waiting for my...
28:30Wow it's like the disappointment is happening right in front of my face.
28:38Well that's all we've got time for this evening.
28:40Go away.
28:52Next tonight on BBC4 Hugh Dennis is Marcus Brigstock's willing victim in another episode
28:56of I've Never Seen Star Wars and he's got some particularly trying challenges in store.
29:02Road kill anyone?
29:03Well rather Hugh than me.