British TV documentaries eventual path

 

Channel Quad for years has brought to your home great and insightful documentaries, that underneath the controversial and taboo, humanize those within them. They have captured the hearts and imaginations of a nation, even rising people into stardom and advocacy for their personal plights. Now they’ve ran out of ideas and have left us asking ‘what kind of people are they going to exploit to gain ratings?’

The new Channel Quds documentary follows the life and struggle of Benjamin who in 2008 tragically became stuck in his coat when his zipper locked into place.

‘It was a pain at first and I just thought I’d pull it over my head, but it wouldn’t budge.’

We will look at the daily struggle for a man stuck wearing a coat all day from daily routines of showering, to commuting to work and finding love.

‘People always say, ‘well at least you stay warm in the winter and dry when it rains’ people just don’t understand my suffering.’

To the ground breaking surgery to free him from his coat.

‘Due to the nature of the coat, we had to fly a master Taylor from Milan and await for a heart surgeon who wasn’t busy saving people with actual life threatening problems to help Benjamin.’

Will he be free from his prison? Find out on ‘Unzipped from reality’. Part of the new series ‘tragic, pointless and trapped’.  And follow the next episode ‘the woman who should have just bought a shoe size larger.’

‘Why didn’t I just get a size 7? Red not even in season now!’

Sewn on smile

There he sits with pins in his ankles and wrists, tied on strings of misery and regret. The puppet master is known as ‘society’ drags him quite awkwardly back and forth to the printer, ignoring his plight to be free. His head bounces off the wall and chips part of his flesh away. There is no scream or even a sigh because the rag doll has lost all reasons to try. Eyes are caught on fish hooks, pulling beauty out of his gaze. Since memories decay of love and laughter he knew in better days. One foot forced in front of the other until the dummy wants to break free his strings. You have to have a little pain to end a lot of suffering. His wrists are cut, but seeing the blood rush down the drain seems to be relief. He was a real boy after all. The sleepiness that follows is comforting and rest seems so nice, maybe it would come faster if he removed the other string. Shame they’ll find him face down in rose water, soaked with a smile. No one wished it on him, but this is what all puppets dream of: Release.