Welcome to Watching Brief. As the name implies, each week Marc (Mr Soup) & Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what they find.

0:00 Introduction

1:50 Today Prog Biased?

20:01 British Museum New TV Show

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Link of the Week:

David Attenborough speaks at COP26:

https://tinyurl.com/4xh463wm

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Links:

The Interim Report on Colonialism and Slavery:

https://www.restoretrust.org.uk/restore-trust-issues/interimreport

We’ve Published our Report into Colonialism and Historic Slavery:

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/news/weve-published-our-report-into-colonialism-and-historic-slavery

BBC Radio.4 Today Programme:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj9z

The Today Programme and The War on the National Trust:

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/11/04/the-today-programme-and-the-war-on-the-national-trust-an-episode-in-shameful-journalism/

Will the National Trust Now End its War on ‘Restore Trust’? :

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-national-trust-rages-on

No Trust in the Today Programme:

http://thepipeline.info/blog/2021/11/05/no-trust-in-the-today-programme/

The National Trust has Needlessly Provoked an ‘Anti-Woke’ Campaign: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/13/national-anti-woke-campaign-slavery-churchill-culture-war

Maitland – Neil Bennet CEO Profile:

https://www.maitland.co.uk/people/our-team/neil-bennett/

Restore Trust Website:

https://www.restoretrust.org.uk/

Code of Practice for Responsible Metal Detecting in England and Wales:

https://youtu.be/ApMJuHGPF9M

More 4 Links up with the British Museum to Learn More About Our Hidden History:

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/more-4-links-british-museum-learn-more-about-our-hidden-history

Association of Detectorists:

https://detectorists.org.uk/