Paul Masons #ThisIsACoup Documentary December 18, 2015
Posted by irishelectionliterature in European Politics.trackback
It’s worth reading An interview with Paul Mason about the #ThisIsACoup Documentary before watching it.
Recounting the moment last January when the leftist Syriza party was elected to power in Greece, Paul Mason said, “I knew it would be the most important political crisis of my life.”
The Documentary is in four parts , each below.
Well worth watching.
FWIW – BBC Radio 4 ‘dramatic reconstruction’, A Greek Drama:
“This summer, as Greece and its creditors argued over the terms of a bailout, the fate of nations – and perhaps the whole European project – was held in the hands of just a few people. They met behind closed doors. There, in secrecy, they took each other, and all of us, to the very edge of the abyss.
“This original drama, tells the inside story of those extraordinary months.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s1s5x
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Yanis Varoufakis has written about ten factual corrections to the BBC radio play
http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2015/12/19/a-greek-drama-the-bbcs-radio-play-10-factual-corrections/
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Thanks, T. One always allows for ‘dramatic licence’ but that info was really useful.
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BTW: I posted that link late last night after a night on the beer before I forgot and as I was settling down to listen to it. Maybe I should have waited because I wasn’t that impressed with it anyway.
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He’s not wholly enamoured of Mason’s effort either.
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That should have come with a link
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