The Toilet - An Unspoken History (2012 BBC)

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DOCUMENTARY: The Toilet: An Unspoken History
On: BBC 4
Date: Monday 16th July 2012 (Already shown)
Time: 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM (1 hour long)

We each spend three years of our lives on the toilet, but how happy are we talking about this essential part of our lives? This film challenges that mindset by uncovering its role in our culture and exploring the social history of the toilet in Britain and abroad - as well as exploring many of our cultural toilet taboos. Starting in Merida, Spain with some of the the earliest surviving Roman toilets, we journey around the world - from the UK to China, Japan and Bangladesh - visiting toilets, ranging from the historically significant to the beautiful, from the functional and sometimes not-so-functional to the downright bizarre. Leading the journey is Everyman figure, Welsh poet and presenter Ifor ap Glyn, who has a passionate interest in the toilet, its history and how it has evolved over the centuries, right up to the development of the current design. Finally, there's a glimpse of the future and a possible solution to the global sanitation issues we now face.


Format : AVI at 1 143 Kbps
Length : 482 MiB for 59mn 0s 560ms

Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 1 005 Kbps
Aspect : 608 x 336 (1.774) at 25.000 fps

Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 128 Kbps
Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz