Alan Titchmarsh discovered one of his gardening shows is being broadcast in Pyongyang. In the segment, Mr Titchmarsh is seen digging into the gardening techniques of the 17th century at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.
It's an isolated country where propaganda clips of missile launches and military parades are weaved into the daily television schedule.
The eighties saw North Korean films take a romantic turn with films such as Broad Bellflower amongst those that could air in the autumn on the new streaming service Other TV offerings include soap operas detailing the tales of heroic soldiers and workers devoted to communist party According to the small Warsaw-based organisation behind the deal, Chollima Front, registration has been steady so far, with less than a hundred people signed up in countries that include the US, Poland, Japan and South Korea.
At the time, Foreign Secretary William Hague hailed it as 'a good way to improve understanding about the outside world within such a closed society'. The gardening legend was the victim of heavy-handed censorship recently when a 2010 episode of Garden Secrets was shown on Korean Central Television with his trousers blurred.
The UK's 74-year-old national treasure became a huge hit with North Korean audiences after the series was first shown on state TV in 2022 - albeit not his jeans A Pyongyang inside gave an insight into what kind of shows would pass its rigorous suitability test. 'Anything too political was not suitable but these are entertainment shows'
No wonder the North Koreans wanted to get a slice of the action when it was the second of three programmes in 2014 to pass the suitability test. It said: 'The broadcast of programmes like Teletubbies would change the attitudes of the North Korean dictatorship, which has incarcerated more than 200,000 of its citizens in gulags.'
AtonementThe North Koreans' love affair with Keira Knightley appeared to continue in the form of 2007 film Atonement. The North Koreans' love affair with Keira Knightley appeared to continue in the form of 2007 film Atonement The tweed-wearing oddball Mr Bean, played by the actor Rowan Atkinson, was one of a slew of programmes named in 2014 by a Foreign Office source as being suitable for North Korea
It follows the highs and lows of Tom and his wife Barbara as they attempt to escape their modern lifestyle and became self-sufficient in their suburban home.
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