Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

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Link of the Month:

01:09:04 - Impressive Water Purification System Found at Ancient Maya City:

https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/2020/10/23/impressive_water_purification_system_found_at_ancient_maya_city.html

Giant Cat Drawing Discovered on Hillside in Peru:

https://www.euronews.com/2020/10/17/giant-cat-drawing-discovered-on-a-hillside-in-peru

Origins and Genetic Legacy of Prehistoric Dogs:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6516/557

Do all Dogs go to Heaven? Tracking Human-Animal relationships Through Archaeological Survey of Pet Cemeteries:

https://tinyurl.com/y2tvunf6

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01:27:28 – Muppet of the Month:

Reactions as Magna Carta Used to Try and Get Around Covid Restrictions:

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/video-reactions-as-magna-carta-used-to-try-and-get-around-covid-restrictions/02/11/

Horrible Histories Song – Magna Carta 800 Years:

https://youtu.be/XTWQzF1027I

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01:38:26 – Media Picks

Barbarians - Netflix:

https://youtu.be/-cA7kwBSUaU

Reclaiming, on Netflix, an Ancient Battle Beloved of Germany’s Far Right:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/arts/television/barbarians-netflix.html

War Walks BBC2:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snyg6/broadcasts/upcoming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Walks