Millions of drivers find themselves trapped in traffic jams each year. And it’s getting worse, with commuting times doubling since 2003. The result is road rage: wasted time, exasperation and frayed tempers. Read More »
Posts Tagged: Cutting-Edge
CUTTING EDGE: 13 KIDS AND WANTING MORE
May 22, 2008 – 2:30 pm
This observational documentary from the Cutting Edge strand follows three extensive families - who currently have 34 children between them - to explore the emotional, religious and psychological reasons why they have a need to keep on having more. Read More »
Cutting Edge: Pramface Babies
March 13, 2008 – 3:49 pm
This week’s Cutting Edge is a life affirming film which shifts from the humorous to the intensely moving, following four young mothers-to-be as they deal with some extraordinary trials and tribulations.
Despite the pregnancies being unplanned and a sometimes rocky relationship with the father, the women take it all in their stride, exchanging thoughts on love and motherhood while finding plenty to laugh about, even as they’re giving birth. The four women featured are just a few of the 8,000 women every year who give birth at Liverpool Women’s Hospital.
Thursday 13 March 2008
9:00pm, Channel 4
Cutting Edge: Phone Rage, Channel 4
March 5, 2008 – 1:41 pm
This latest Cutting Edge documentary goes inside the world of the modern call centre to meet the people who are trying to serve callers, finding out what it’s like to be on the receiving end of frustrated fury. Although they are designed to make life easier, there are plenty of people who feel that call centres do the opposite, and in this programme some share their anger on what bothers them most about being kept on hold. Read More »
Cutting Edge: THE GIRLS WHO WERE FOUND ALIVE
February 26, 2008 – 11:26 pm
In January 1999, an incident occurred in Hastings that is every parent’s nightmare. Two ten-year-old girls, Charlene Lunnon and Lisa Hoodless, went missing as they walked to school. Now, as part of Channel 4’s Cutting Edge strand, they give first-hand accounts of how they survived abduction, and how their relationship was changed for ever.
Thursday 28 February 2008
9:00pm, Channel 4
MY STREET: Cutting Edge
February 19, 2008 – 11:26 pm
There are more than 300 people living in the 116 houses on filmmaker Sue Bourne’s street. Until now she barely knew a soul. She tweaks the net curtains and reveals remarkable stories, hidden from view, on what could be any street.
There are millionaires living next door to people on benefits, convicted drug smugglers alongside classical composers. On her journey up and down the street she meets wild party animals and recluses, the very young and the very old. She finds stories of success and tragedy and sees how illness and loneliness, hope and happiness have left their mark on the lives of her neighbours. Read More »
VIDEO: My Street, Channel 4
February 19, 2008 – 5:08 pm
My Street is a film about a street. It could be any street. It could be your street and the people on it could be your neighbours. But My Street is where filmmaker Sue Bourne lives and until now she barely knew a soul. In this film she tweaks the net curtains and knocks on doors, revealing remarkable stories, hidden from view, on what could be almost any street in Britain.
After 14 years of living on the same road Sue knew practically none of her neighbours. Intrigued by what stories might lie on her own doorstep, she began knocking on the 116 doors on her street and meeting some of the 300 people who are her neighbours.
Watch The Baby Bible Bashers As Cutting Edge Returns
February 11, 2008 – 3:18 pm
Samuel Boutwell is a seven-year-old preacher. He takes his vocation to save sinners from burning in eternal hell extremely seriously. Most Saturdays he stands in front of his local abortion clinic in Brookhaven, Mississippi and, Bible in hand, bellows:”Don’t kill your child! Repent! God loves the little children!” He is one of three extraordinary children who feature in this week’s Cutting Edge, Baby Bible Bashers , which follows the enlightening stories of three of the Lord’s “chosen children”, and their relationships with God, their families and their congregations. The Christian evangelist movement is growing three times faster than the world’s population. And born again parents are increasingly putting their children on the front line of the crusade to convert sinners.
VIDEO: WHO KILLED THE PLAYBOY EARL?
February 5, 2008 – 11:34 am
When Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, went missing from his luxury hotel in Cannes on 5 November 2004, it inspired a press frenzy that exposed a frothy mix of glamour, vice, drink, drugs and fallen aristocracy. Read More »
Cutting Edge: Scams, Fiddles and Honest Claims VIDEO
January 28, 2008 – 2:10 pm
This week’s Cutting Edge looks at the darker side of fraudulent insurance claims and the people they hurt.
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not just the insurance companies!
