Currently on BBC News 24 they are showing two promotional trailers for the BBC tagged 'This is what we do.' In one of these it informs us that it took three years planning, a week-long hike up a mountain and then seven weeks waiting just to get a shot, lasting only a few seconds, of a snow leopard chasing a deer. The other clip I've seen mentioned how BBC technicians had to dismantle their satellite uplink equipment and place it on donkeys in order to traverse a mountain pass blocked by snow just so that they could get to Kabul a few minutes earlier than a rival network.
Who bloody cares? It's excessive expenditure such as this that makes the TV licence fee so expensive and turns so many otherwise law-abiding citizens into criminals spending prolonged periods of time in jail because they can't afford to pay...'This is what we do'