TV Listings

Series Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG8AvHCpnkg
Press Release: www.microtime.co.uk/1gl/prg1008.htm

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The Thoughts are about 30 secs, and the trailers about 1:30 – 2:00 mins

TV Listings - all on Channel 4 – Every Wednesday night until 17th Dec
Click on Chapter Name to take you directly to summary

5th Nobember - Chapter 1 - Bombardment
12th November - Chapter 2 - Wounded
19th November - Chapter 3 - Men & Women
26th Nobember - Chapter 4 - Love & Need
3rd December - Chapter 5 - Wanting and the Freedom
10th December - Chapter 6 - Grace
12th December - Chapter 7 Journey

Featuring (interviews/music) Maxi Jazz; Noam Chomsky; Michael Stipe; Eckhart Tolle; Will Young; Bobby Whiskers; Barbatuques; Jhelissa; Tom Robbins; Speed Levitch

The Thought - Eckhart Tolle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAOlYZaVp_Q

Transcript “Part of the madness is to live as if the future were more important than the present moment, which is how most people live.  Completely insane, so you miss the aliveness of life for some projected future aliveness of fulfillment.  There is no future, there is noly this, the present moment."

Trailer -Bombardment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaZgW7Jv74E

Summary
4 years in the making What About Me? has been a total bombardment of the senses. We took on such an ambitious concept with little idea of what would happen. Only a faith that if we stayed with it, it’d work out.

"The backing track for this chapter was written one windy night in my van in Cadaques Spain. I had copied the riff from a sample of some Thai instrument. Sounded very different on my guitar, and as I played it to other musicians around the world it took on a whole new sound. Later on, Nigel (my constant support and musical genius) told me he thought I’d ripped it from knight Rider! I probably did without realising. Certainly doesn’t sound like that in the end. The original lyrical concept for this track was to look at the issues of communication. As we started investigating and composing lyrics the idea of questioning the quality of our communication both with others but more importantly with ourselves, became our primary interest. " Duncan Bridgeman

12th Nov – Wounded

Featuring (interviews/music) Billy Connolly, Stewart Copeland, Neale Walsch, Tim Robbins, KD Lang, Eddi Reader

The Thought - Tim Robbins - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1f1Pl-qIWw

Transcript “The problem is you have to learn your way through these things, you gotta fight your way through these things – and the big problem is when they medicate teenagers and children, often at the request of the expert opinion of some fucking teacher that is having a hard time with a creative child. Now when you medicate a kid through those years that kid is not learning how to deal with depression or anger. The discomfort that the child’s depression and anger brings the parent or teacher – the idea that they would medicate him, is really a selfish thing – it is really the teacher’s problem, the parent’s problem – so what they wind up doing is medicating these kids, and then the kids find their way of course like other teenagers into self-medication along with that medication and that is a recipe for disaster! And all these suitors in Columbine, and the kid up in Oregon and the kid down south are all on anti-depressants throughout their teenage years – and what happened was that they got to a point where the rage just blew – if your kid got a lot of energy – find something to do with the energy – get of your ass Mom, Dad – do something rather than put a pill into their mouth”

Trailer - Wounded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLOhvF7i2Mw

Summary
How our greed is never satisfied and freedom comes with escaping your desire

Does ‘freedom’ mean having everything you want or not needing so many things in the first place? Does ‘wanting’ beat ‘getting’? Is there no end to Desire? 1 Giant Leap try and break free from the culture of ‘more and more’ to ask can there ever be ‘enough’?

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19th Nov - Men & Women

Featuring (interviews/music) Carlos Santana, Stephen Fry, Neale Walsch, Radioactive, Jhelisa, Susan Sarandon, Speech, Marianne Williamson

The Thought Susan Sarandon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnlqLrs8_i0

Transcript “In the middle of an orgasm, do I think ‘do I have too much flab around my middle?’ I mean when you are really in an ecstatic place and you look at your child’s face and you completely happy and you have your family around you – you don’t think about that !

Trailer Men & Women http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftBoEfS7NDc

Summary
Examining gender and equality issues

We live in a world of short-cuts and instant fixes, but even though it seems so natural to avoid pain with a pill 1 Giant Leap question whether we need to substitute our Prozac for self-examination and realize, perhaps, that although we each carry our own wounds, the trials of life have sculpted us into the uniquely beautiful people we are today.

This episode really does have an all star cast. Actor Tim Robbins, plus comedians Billy Connolly and Stephen Fry all make an appearance to discuss being vulnerable, and how it's more of a strength than people realise.
Musically the theme is tackled with a simple guitar loop that K D Lang, Eddi Reader and Police drummer Stuart Copeland all add layers of sound to: it's a haunting piece that really capture the imagination.

Of course there is a bit more travelling around the world for producers Jamie and Duncan including Mali, Hawaii and LA!

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Featuring (interviews/music) Maxi Jazz, Bob Geldof, Michale Franti, Eddi Reader, Billy Connolly, Tom Robbins, Gabrielle Roth,

The Thought - Bob Geldof / Billy Connolly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t6OQwqrCac

Transcript
Bob Geldof “When you see old people, they have made it through – maybe they love each other, maybe they don’t, but they have weathered this difficult thing – it is the hardest thing you’ll do. The immense story that must lie behind these two people together - take them and just talk to them, it will be an epic no matter who they are – even if they have lived in the same room for 83 years, I am telling you that lifestory is a psycho drama, it is an epic”

Billy Connolly “ Don’t listen to what they say about what it takes for a marriage to work – nobody knows”

Trailer Love & Need http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5q9Ek-DcmA

Summary
How we mistake love for all sorts of other emotions

The secret of a happy and loving marriage has remained one of the great, undiscovered mysteries of the human race. 1 Giant Leap travel the globe to find out what Love’s got to do with it? And are we giving or taking?

Love is a tricky thing isn't it? As usual the boys are off around the world exploring different musical and social takes on relationships. Do we all confuse love with need (it's complicated OK) and how do we express that?
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Featuring (interviews/music) Alanis Morissette, Tom Robbins, Boots Riley, Eckhart Tolle; Speech, Speed Levitch, Krishna Das

The Thought
Wanting- Seikou Camera - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo6smI0QENo

Transcript “Everybody wants to behave just like an American, it’s amazing. Amazing to me I don’t think they are always happy people there, they should be unhappy because of what is happening in the community there, it is not enough to have money to be happy. Money doesn’t make people happy, it is peace of mind we have, and I would be supplied if they had peace of mind because there is no family, individualistic life, everyone is running after money, no time to sit down - be friends, it’s a disaster!

The Thought
Freedom – Father Lancy Prabhu - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFS9Z_p9Nx4

Transcript “I don’t think people could follow to the track of understanding Freedom as I do what I like – I don’t really think that’s freedom as you are still bound by your desires, so where is the freedom? Freedom would be that you understand your desires, the compulsion of those desires, the addiction of that – and you are able to transcend that. Otherwise your passion is determining your behaviour although you are saying it is Freedom.”

Trailer Wanting and Freedom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y2XC2PcUxU

Summary
What is True Freedom?

How our greed is never satisfied and freedom comes with escaping your desire

Does ‘freedom’ mean having everything you want or not needing so many things in the first place? Does ‘wanting’ beat ‘getting’? Is there no end to Desire? 1 Giant Leap try and break free from the culture of ‘more and more’ to ask can there ever be ‘enough’?

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Featuring (interviews/music) Frank Skinner, Baaba Maal, Deepak Chopra, Bob Geldof, Michael Franti

The Thought Frank Skinner - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tniK8On8IJw

Transcript “I pray a lot. Every day. And I talk to God like he is my very best mate. It is great talking to someone when you know the option for bullshit, doesn’t exist

Trailer Grace http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn0_kOSUIFQ

Summary
How we cope with death, loss and God

Are you scared of getting old? Another theme that unites mankind across the world is how we deal with being old. It inspires a more reflective blues song that combines a Santana guitar solo over stunningly evocative harmonies from Mali and Tibet.

And again the boys travel around the world to add to the track recording Brazilian beats and a Michael Franti bridge. Of course the show would not be complete without some profound insight in to getting old straight from the mouths of Bob Geldof and Frank Skinner no less!

Featuring (interviews/music) Billy Connolly – summary of over 1000 hours of footage- 100’s of music sessions and the certain thought that the one thing that unites our diversity is the love of music

Trailer - The Journey -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gD96glXddQ

Summary
1 Giant Leap set off around the world to create the biggest global music jam in history, tracking down the cream of the worlds musicians and persuading them to join in to the ever growing mix. As they traveled through all five continents they also interviewed the greatest thinkers of the day to discover just how much Unity is there in all this Diversity? 1 Giant Leap set off to seek out their heroes and find some new ones along the way. This bonus episode looks at the personal Journey of Duncan and Jamie and how they dealt with massive project that they had taken on.

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