TopLearn? Discovery World? BBC Knowledge? Mindset Learn? The answer has to be the little-watched Bloomberg Television (DStv 411) over weekends. That's when viewers - if you take the time to actually check the schedule - can just soak up the cleverness, the insight, analysis and perspective with well-done, gloss programmes that stimulates the intellect with a variety of topical discussions and insightful shows.
This Saturday at 10:00 South African time on Bloomberg Television (DStv 411) 10 Things that keep me up at night looks back at the events that have shaped 2010 and is based on Alistair Newton's annual report who's also the studio guest. At 12:00 on Saturday (SA time) OPEC 50 Years on looks at oil as the instrument of geopolitical power. After half a century of its creation, John Cookson looks at the future of OPEC.
This Sunday at 13:30 (all SA times) there is 2010 in Pictures looking at the growth of 3D movies, and whether its just a fad or a new consumer trend in films. On Sunday at 14:30 the fascinating Can the Euro survive? examines whether the pan-European currency will still be around by the end of the next decade.
