This amazing documentary was set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, and the equally breathtaking adventure that six blind Tibetan teenagers undertook; to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri which is on the north side of Everest.

It was a story of achieving the seemingly impossible against all the odds, and the film was made especially poignant when we learned that in Tibet, blind people are considered to be possessed by demons or to have been sinners in a previous life. Therefore, the children featured had been through all kinds of torment with many having been shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by Tibetan society in general.

Their lives were dark in every sense until Sabriye Tenberken – pictured above in the orange jacket – a blind educator and adventurer established the first school for the blind in Lhasa and effectively rescued these children… Read more & comment »

Now, I have to say, ordinarily, whenever there’s anything football related on TV, I’m offski. I’ll go and do something infinitely more interesting such as watching wood warp or maybe even cleaning out the kitchen cupboards and finding rice that’s been there since 1970… you get the gist; I’m not digging football at all. Imagine my surprise then when I stumbled upon Maradona: In the Hands of the Gods on BBC4 last night and actually enjoyed it!

Had it not been for the fact that – just as the programme began – my remote chose that moment to finally stop giving me warnings about needing to replace my batteries and actually died, I would’ve whizzed on past it. But die it did so while it stubbornly refused to flick channels, I sent my beloved on a hunt for a battery to two which may not have been drained by our kids’ MP3 players, and slowly but surely got sucked into the story… Read more & comment »