Most Watchification posts hardly get any comments (although we reckon this might be because you can’t comment and watch a show at the same time: that’s something we want to fix). The Yemen episode of Women in Black got loads (including one from me, which I suppose I shouldn’t count), all of which are quite passionate and apparently from knowledgeable Muslim Women. The series has obviously caught the imagination of this audience and they’ve used Watchification’s comments facility to have their say.

I mention this because, much as I like getting these comments here, Watchification is hardly the right place for this discussion. It would be in everybody’s interests for the debate to carry on at the programme’s own web page, preferably alongside the show itself so people can watch it back and arrive at their own conclusions. Sadly, none of this can happen: first, because the show itself has expired and second, because the series apparently has no web page beyond the automatically-generated one at /programmes. Pity.

And here’s an interview with presenter Amina Zain from Woman’s Hour back in May.

This is a terrific documentary which starts out on the classical model with talking heads, library footage, and crackly cockpit recordings and then piles on the drama with Hollywood-grade re-enactments and a tense orchestral score. Peter Taylor, who practically invented the study of terrorism thirty years ago tells this tense tale. The final scene is so like an action movie that it requires a stunt coordinator. Bleak and gripping stuff.

Here’s a long article about the series by Peter Taylor himself.