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Live Aid: Against All Odds

Live Aid: Against All Odds is a TV documentary that was first broadcast on BBC Four on the 13th July 2010. The two part documentary received critical success when it was first broadcast on television. As a part of my EPQ project I am going to watch both episodes in order to improve my knowledge of the event and why it happened. I believe that it will help me to understand the details which allowed the event to continue as well as the factors which may have almost stopped it from happening. BBC documentaries have also been reliable as it is a Public Service Broadcaster and therefore they will be monitored by OFCOM in making sure that their resources are reliable.   The first part to the documentary is called Against All Odds and this episode outlines the reason why it was started and the events that led up to it. Many people were sceptical of the event as they thought it would be catastrophic and would not turn out the way in which Bob Geldof envisioned it. The first vision of this even