CCTV

CCTV - sometimes it's not what it seems...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Well that happened Well George Orwell, or Eric
Blair as he was formerly known when he worked for
the BBC, wrote the Siminal novel, criticizing the increasing giving
up of privacy. For I don't know being able to
press a butt then get a burger delivered to your sofa,
And he wrote about that and the warning of it,
and how it would create a situation where anything you do,

(00:20):
even your thoughts, can be examined, taken apart, and perhaps
you can be re educated by a big brother well In.
He wrote it in an Islington flat and within two
hundred yards of his flat. There's now forty six CCTV cameras,
says Well, there's a man about five million CCTV cameras

(00:41):
in the UK. It's essentially one for every twelve people
in the country, and yet they can't think, can't find anyone.
Croydon has the most strange enough. I went to Croydon
once looking for the ike. It was almost impossible to find.
The place open was a strip bar and I went

(01:01):
in to ask for directions. I don't think they've ever
had somebody come in and so excuse me, can you
tell me what KA I want? To get a hat stand.
It's a pretty unusual request in a strip bar anyway.
It's more cameras then the whole of New York City.
So there, and it's been calculated each person in Britain
has caught in the cara roughly about three hundred times
a day. But if you don't go out, then you're

(01:22):
probably going to be caught very, very less. And if
you wear a disguise, I find I tend to disguise
myself as an elderly nun or maybe a visiting dowager
that tends to confuse the authorities, somewhat a bit awkward
on the strip and search, but there you are.