James Walton

For all its absurdity, it delivers the goods: BBC2’s Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America reviewed

Plus: a heart-warming documentary about how oil transformed the small Highland town of Nigg

Louis Theroux heroically managing not to say ‘no’ when they ended their stoned rambles with the words ‘You know what I’m saying?’ Image: BBC / Mindhouse Productions / Dan Dewsbury 
issue 26 February 2022
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