Rare Unseen Father Ted Footage From Season 3

Alas, we never got  a third season of Father Ted due to the untimely demise of Dermot Morgan. Nevertheless, here is a taste of what they may have had in store for us. 

The Artist Who Ate A Fetus For Realz!

This calm and composed man is artist Zhu Yu, who got his hands on some aborted fetuses, went and cooked and ate the fetus for a series he called 'Eating People'. He has related his performance to his Christian faith, 'Jesus is always related It death, blood, wounds, etc.'This kind of art has been tagged 'Shock Art' an extreme form of art that is embraced in China, where revolution is bubbling up.

When the photographs originally surfaced and even appeared on a Channel 4 documentary about modern Chinese art, there were doubts if the photographs were real, turns out they were! Channel 4 got in trouble for a a "lack of respect for human dignity" for broadcasting the image of Yu eating a fetus. Channel 4 hit back by saying that the image was acceptable in that it remitted to"take on challenging subjects and explore cultural boundaries".

This Is David Harper

In 1990 a little known show called This Is David Harper was on channel 4. It was the brainchild of Stephen Fry. It starred a bad-ass, dedicated reporter called David Harper played by Tony Slattery. The series parodies Roger Cook style investigative journalism shows. For fans of Brass Eye or anything Chris Morris has graced, it is essential viewing. It can found on youtube.

This episode is about children who are brought up in a special school with an insane, totalitarian principle to churn out super intelligent children but with startling social side-effects. the programme starts with the reporter's explanation that after writing an opera for a school project that the 6 year old prodigy 'has also found time to work on a 400 page novel which he claims picks up where Finnegans Wake left off'