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Have you seen The War Game (1966)?

Yes

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onDec 12, 2025

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Would you recognize this person if you saw them in public?

Yes, I know who this is and I feel confident that I would recognize them

I know who this is but I’m not sure I would recognize them in person

They look familiar but I’m not sure who they are

I have no idea who this is

Nuanced answer

Voting ended onSep 26, 2025

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Michael Palin appears alongside Princess Anne on a special episode of Aspel and Company dedicated to her in 1990

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#ASPEL #not the whole thing unfortunately #but we’re getting there besties #she’s so cute #and michael palin is a charmer #I love their rapport #the royal knockout mention 👀#the Scottish rugby team flew down to london to be there for this #I need the part with them #it’s bound to be juicier #also lol at them and anne laughing when he says ‘missionary’#princess anne #princess royal #anneterview #michael aspel #michael palin #british royal family #brf

Anne the Queen of Scots 🥰🥰🥰 - Daily Record April 27 1990

#she was great on aspel & company #gave the interviewer a homework #get your shit together aspel #everyone would like anne to be the queen of scotland #and uk #Princess Anne #Princess Royal #michael aspel #brf #british royal family #newspaper

Series 7 episode from 1983. Hosted by Michael Aspel, with Una Stubbs, and Lionel Blair as captains.The guests are: Joyce Blair, Madeline Smith, Anne Diamond,...

On Give Us A Clue

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#2x4 #series 2 #episode line-up #dara o briain #michael aspel #david mitchell #angus deayton #lee mack #davina mccall #jason manford #wilty

The War Game (1966)

"If I decide to hit, and perhaps kill, another man myself, then I must be prepared to accept the moral responsibility. If I give the government the right or the means, on my behalf, to kill people of another country - then the situation is no different. I must again myself accept the moral responsibility."

#The war game #peter watkins #Docudrama #1966 #films i done watched #Short film #BBC #Banned television #Michael aspel #peter graham #Commissioned by the BBC and produced in 65 it is perhaps unsurprising that the beeb took one look at this and got cold feet #Watkins secured a brief cinema release the following year and toured the film at festivals (winning a well deserved Oscar in the process)#It would be 20 years before the BBC felt ready to broadcast it. Like I say I understand their reticence but I can't condone it #The war game is... It is quite simply one of the most harrowing disturbing and upsetting things I have ever seen. It is also without #Hyperbole one of the most important films ever made. Every one should see this film. Every single person. Every politician should be made #To watch it in the presence of their constituents at least once a year. It is many things. A genuine masterpiece and an astonishingly well #Made piece of speculative fiction masquerading as documentary. It is a stark and terrified warning. It is a furious wrenching diatribe.#Watkins is at his strongest and his angriest but somehow he incredibly manages never to spill over into lecturing or into hot headed #Posturing. Rather he keeps everything very level and horribly cold as he lays out fact after fact and shows horrific image after horrific #Image. There have been whole books written about this film so I don't need to say too much. But there are so many brilliant touches. The #Dark cynical satirical touches in editing (moving from scenes of pure heart rending destruction to authority types delivering dry sermons #About the importance of nuclear weapons). The way the priest asks God for forgiveness ostensibly for the victims of a public execution but #With his eyes pointedly trained on the soldiers carrying it out. The use of non actors throughout and the entirely believable lead up to a #Potential nuclear war. An incredible film. Truly harrowing and still deeply resonant and awfully worrying some 50 odd years later.#Difficult to watch and even more difficult to watch again when you have experienced it once before. But Jesus it's important.

‘I wanted to give them time to write me out without dropping the bombshell out of the blue. So I went away and did the pantomime and came back, and [EastEnders’ co-creator and producer, Julia Smith, and I] had lots of talks and lunch. And gradually she decided along with me that if I was going to take a break and do other things that this was the best time to do that. And she very graciously allowed the door to stay open, so that I could come back if I wanted to.’

- Anita Dobson interviewed by Michael Aspel about her EastEnders exit (1988)

Millions of TV viewers were gripped by Angie Watts’ trials and tribulations in one of the UK’s biggest shows. Anita Dobson’s decision to leave EastEnders after just over three years on screen was even reported on the Six O’Clock News.

Imagine what the soap might’ve been like had the Queen of the Vic one day walked back through that open door with a smile, a wink and an ‘Alright, sweetheart?’...

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