I remember watching and recording these documentaries when they first aired on Channel 4 as part of their Whose News? season. It’s great to rewatch them again after all these years - thanks a lot for uploading them. They are very prophetic.
Astra appeared in South Africa for a brief period. The state broadcaster, SABC, decided on analogue satellite rather than digital. It failed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstraSat
I had an absolute stinker of a cold when recording this, I also had a specific time limit to stick to hence me talking too fast so that's why I sound so strange in this.