It sold over 3 million tickets - only the Olympic Games sells more - and they’re every four years. It’s an extraordinary success story, entirely, though not deliberately, based on principles conceived by a philosopher who lived in the same city two hundred years earlier: Adam Smith.

Featuring Jimmy Carr, Al Murray, Shazia Mirza, Henning Wehn and Arthur Smith, Father of the Fringe tells the extraordinary economic success story of the Edinburgh Fringe, and how it proved the unlikely realisation of everything Adam Smith argued for.

Written and presented by Dominic Frisby. Directed by Alex Webster. Executive Producer: Paul Wed…

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In this exclusive deleted scene from Afghanistan, director James Glancy discusses the incredible women he met in the country and the brutal reality of their lives under the Taliban.

He also speaks with Zarifa Ghafari, one of the country's few female mayors and a survivor of three assassination attempts. Sadly, it is now too dangerous for Zarifa to live in her homeland.

In this sequence, the filmmakers hear of a refugee camp in Southern Kandahar, and make the perilous journey there by car, finding hundreds of people totally abandoned by their government, seemingly left to their fate as the Taliban close in.

However, upon leaving the camp, things take a turn for the worse as the team make their way to government controlled territory, and are forced to take drastic measures to ensure they make it back….

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So what does it take to keep Israel alive? Former Telegraph reporter Michael Murphy travels across the world’s only Jewish state, uncovering the personal stories of soldiers, politicians, doctors, terror survivors, and civilians manning the ramparts of fortress Israel in the wake of October 7.

Through exclusive interviews and rare on-the-ground footage, Michael uncovers the profound toll of living in perpetual alertness, exposing both the vulnerability and resilience of those who shoulder the weight of safeguarding their nation and its people. This is a story of survival, endurance, and humanity, brought to life through the voices of those who experience it every day.

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When former Royal Marine returned to Afghanistan, he intended to document how 20 years of NATO occupation had changed the country since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Instead he witnessed the fall of a nation as America cut its losses and deserted its Afghan allies, leaving the Taliban even more powerful than before.

With unprecedented access to the Ahmad Massoud’s National Resistance Front in the mountains of the Panjshir and Mazaar e Sharif, to the arid deserts of Kandahar embedded with the Afghan National Security and Defence Forces as they made their finals stand’s, this is the last film to ever document life in Afghanistan for the return to power of the Taliban in August 2021.

When President Biden announced the US withdrawal, the film is transformed into a pulse-pounding race against time as James documents the final, desperate efforts to mount resistance against the rising tide while he trying to help evacuate his Afghan allies.

Drawing on his military background and personal bonds in Afghanistan, James brings a prescient eye to unfolding events. As his predictions about Taliban rule prove chillingly accurate, one explosive forecast remains unfulfilled – for now.

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