BBC's Frozen Planet: Educate, inform, entertain - as long as it doesn't upset climate sceptics

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The Sceptic Tank is none too impressed with the BBC's decision to censor its nature documentary for foreign audiences

If you listen really carefully you can probably hear it: the sound of Lord Reith rotating slowly in his coffin. At this distance it sounds remarkably like a Greenland glacier breaking up. It emerged...

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