My Daughter The Teenage Nudist - Channel 4, 12 January, 10pm

Channel 4 is to examine the growing trend of naturism among young people in the UK in My Daughter the Teenage Nudist due to air on Thursday 12 January 2012.

Mollie and Alex are part of a growing group of teens and twentysomethings who are embracing the world of public nudity - a contemporary phenomenon that's been driven by Facebook as well as niche websites like The Naked Tea Party. They are on a quest to normalise nudity, question the media's obsession with the body beautiful, and encourage other young people to liberate themselves by simply going naked - in the streets, cafés or at art shows. The new naturists are keen to take the nudist lifestyle beyond the old fashioned naturist clubs. So why is this pastime increasing in popularity and what do the parents think about their child revealing all in the most public of places?

Well you just have to watch it to find out.

It is said that British Naturism are delighted to have been fully involved in this film. They worked closely with the production company ZKK over the Summer of 2011, helping them to find people and places. The documentary shows how attitudes to social and public nudity are changing, especially among younger people, who are finding it fun and enjoying the sense of freedom going without clothes brings and challenging the validity of cultural norms.

So, forget your hang-ups, forget what you mother said about "modesty" and treat yourself to a better life. There's a wonderful world of regular nudity out there just waiting for you - with events, holidays, online communities, magazines and more.

Come and watch it and tell as many as you friends, you have nothing to lose but your clothes - and everything to gain!

Mollie in My Daughter the Teenage Nudist - Photo from Channel Four

Alex in My Daughter the Teenage Nudist - Photo from Channel Four

My Daughter the Teenage Nudist - Channel 4

Sherlock: BBC Will Not Remove Nude Scenes For 7pm Repeat

This article is from the guardian.co.uk:

The BBC will not edit out nude scenes from the new series of Sherlock when the hit drama is repeated from 7pm this weekend on digital channel BBC3, despite more than 100 complaints from viewers.

The footage of actress Lara Pulver, who plays dominatrix Irene Adler, led to criticism from the Daily Mail for showing the scenes before the 9pm watershed. Sherlock was broadcast on BBC1 over 90 minutes from 8.10pm on Sunday.



By Wednesday morning, the BBC had received 102 complaints about Sherlock, relating to inappropriate scenes broadcast before the watershed.

In the New Year's Day episode, A Scandal in Belgravia, Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes meets his match in the form of Adler, who is naked when they first meet. However, thanks to the camera angles and Pulver's carefully placed arms and hands, viewers do not see her completely naked.

Read The Whole Article @ guardian.co.uk

BBC One - Sherlock

Under The Knife [Body Image, Documentary]

Louis Theroux travels out to Los Angeles to check out the world of plastic surgery, where breast enhancements, tummy tucks, muscle implants and the like are common procedures.

Spending time in the surgeries of several plastic surgeons, Louis meets the doctors who carry out the operations and the people who feel they need work – whether it is a man looking to make his muscles look larger or a woman preparing to undergo surgery as part of improving her life. On this occasion though, Louis also undergoes a procedure himself to experience it firsthand.

If anyone else decided to have surgery as part of a film about plastic surgery I would be very cynical and assume the worst but I think Louis Theroux is unlikely to be accused of cheap tricks or gimmicks. Mostly he does a good job of getting in with his subjects and bringing them out in front of the cameras; one could accuse him of manipulating them perhaps but I think that is too harsh a description.

Here he does enough away from the gimmick of having liposuction to justify it as quite a small part of the show. The rest is interesting if not fascinating. Naturally the patients make for the most interesting scenes and some of them are curious and quite sad. Some are easy targets but Theroux’s soft touch prevents it feeling like he is getting at them.

Louis Theroux - Official Website
Louis Theroux - Wikipedia

My Daughter, The Teenage Nudist [Documentary]

Many of you will remember that I, NAKED VEGAN COOKING and British Naturism worked closely with a UK TV company called ZKK during the summer and beyond on a documentary for Channel 4. It's finished now and - according to the currently published schedules - will be broadcast at 10pm on Thursday January 12th (UK).

British Naturism has seen a preview and they say it's good! It is not about BN or iNAKED nor naturism per se, but follows the journey of a number of young people as they explore social nudity and get involved, and discuss cultural, conventional and body image issues and attitudes. New YBN leader, Daryl Jones features in it a great deal and is always seen as the "BN man". The title (see above) is not one that I or British Naturism would choose and I understand ZKK argued for something better too, but Channel 4 insisted - it will certainly make people watch it - Channel 4 hope for a couple of million at least. We can expect a lot of attention when it goes out and in fact Channel 4 are so enamoured with it that they will be putting their big publicity guns behind it and we must be ready to exploit it - for everyone's benefit!

In preparation - Channel 4 as already got a page for the documentary on its website, which you can see here.

Anyone who is hoping to see me on the show, sorry to disappoint but I won't be on it as I decided at the time of filming over the summer that I was not ready to go on TV.

My Daughter the Teenage Nudist - Channel 4

World's Lost Tribes [Tribal Peoples and Cultures]

Join extreme travellers Mark Anstice and Olly Steeds as they embark on unique expeditions into some of the most remote places on Earth.

Explorer, Mark and journalist Olly have spent months with two remarkable indigenous tribes in West Papua - the Kombai and the Mek - trekking high into uncharted highlands, seeking total immersion in isolated cultures with histories of tribal war, sorcery and witchcraft.

In this hugely different world, Brits Mark and Olly attempt to live off the land, exactly like their hosts. It's a hardcore challenge because not only do they have to learn how to survive on a largely unusual (and often unpalatable) diet, they must also work alongside the tribes, learn new languages and understand each tribe's rituals.

Join Mark and Olly in their incredible adventures as they make friends, and enemies, and learn the secrets of these primal societies.



US Discovery Travel Series following explorers Mark Anstice and Olly Steeds living with the Kombai Tribe. They are some of the worlds last hunter gatherers. They throw a huge sago grub festival - all is well until a feudal enemy turns up.



US Travel Channel Series following explorers Mark Anstice and Olly Steeds living with the Mek tribe in West Papua. The Mek are the some of the worlds oldest farmers but still dig with sticks. Much of their lives is very recognizable though, this is a clip of a young couple and their shotgun wedding.

Adventures of Mark and Olly - World's Lost Tribes - Discovery Channel
More Worlds Lost Tribes Videos at YourDiscovery.com
Amazon.co.uk: World's Lost Tribes [DVD]: Film & TV

Dawn Get's Naked (2007) [Documentary]

Dawn Porter bares all in order to reveal how our idea of perfection has been perverted to fit the demands of the beauty industry. In a bid to get to grips with her naked self, Dawn is propelled into all manner of uncompromising situations - from hanging out with naturists to learning a valuable lesson in morality from a stripper. Spurred on to try and change attitudes and expectations of the female form, Dawn sets about organising what she hopes will become the ultimate female Flashmob.

Last broadcasted on UK TV on the 17 September 2008.

Dawn Gets Naked

Tarde Directo: Los nudistas apuran los últimos rayos de sol

AFTERNOON LIVE: NUDISTS RUSH THE LAST RAYS OF SUN

Tras la masificación del verano aprovechan al máximo antes de la llegada del frío. Nos hemos colado en Veranatura, en Almería, una urbanización pensada por y para ellos.

After the mass take full advantage of the summer before the cold weather arrives. We have slipped into Veranatura in Almeria, a development designed by and for them.

Nudism. It's natural! [Naturism]

Video presentation and explanation of what is nudism or naturism.

Commuters Travel To Work On The Tube Naked To Help Boost Company's Bottom Line [Blast From The Past]

19/05/2010

It was a cheeky and unexpected sight that greeted commuters as they boarded a Tube into work.

But the four naked men and women certainly livened up the usually dull journey for many people – attracting gasps from stunned workers.

Carrying handbags or briefcases to cover their modesty – and wearing shoes – the nudes travelled on escalators and rode in the carriages as though their lack of suitable attire was completely normal.

But, rather than trying to start a new trend on the London Underground, the group were promoting a TV series which sees staff at struggling businesses helping to turn their company around.

Steven Suphi, behaviour change specialist and leadership guru, believes stripping off in the office will help boost employees' confidence and develop trust.

She said: ‘For most people in the UK going to work in the nude is a very daunting prospect.

‘I believe this extreme process will help them push their boundaries and become a close team that trust each other enough to get naked together.’

The nudes were publicising tomorrow’s episode of the new six-part series The Naked Office being screened on Virgin 1 at 9pm.

TEXT: Mail Online

Going To Work Naked [Documentary]

This 2005 documentary is good-natured and affectionate look at the lives of Naturists in Great Britain and screened to huge ratings by ITV in the UK and in territories throughout the world. Narrated by Griff Rhys Jones and Produced by Will Hanrahan.

Naked Yoga Teacher Ralph Craig: Kris Humphries 'Laughed & Joked' On 'Kourtney And Kim Take New York' [Showbiz]

This article is from The Hollywood Reporter:

The Ashtanga instructor tells a different tale about Kardashian's 72-day husband's initial reaction to the nude yoga class on the deftly-edited season premiere of the reality show.

Ralph Craig – the naked yoga teacher who became the final straw in Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries volcanic 72-day marriage -- got a lot of exposure for his Sunday appearance on E!'s Kourtney & Kim Take New York season premiere. And some flack. After walking into the naked yoga class arranged by Kourtney Kardashian, featuring girls in thongs and a handsome naked dread-locked yogi, Kris railed at Kim about the "disgusting and disrespectful" event, referred to Craig as a "stripper" claimed he felt like "throwing up" and skedaddled back to Montana. Watch the video here.

But according to Craig, a 22-year-old Ashanga yogi and practicing Buddhist, Humphries initial reaction was one of surprise and laughter, something that was not shown on the aired episode. "I haven't seen the show yet but I read some of the reports of what he said. It was pretty surprising to read about it because it was all really funny when he first came in. I went to open the door and he looked taken aback but he was laughing, shook his head and made a joke about it. In fact, that was the funniest moment of the shoot.”

Read The Whole Article @ The Hollywood Reporter

The Golden Girls - Valentine's Day At A Nude Resort [Humour]

Rose accidentally arranges for the Girls to spend Valentine's Day weekend at a nude resort.

A Daily Nude In Your Living Room [Blast From The Past]

By Louise France
The Observer, Sunday 21 June 2009

Life drawing is undergoing a boom in Britain, and it will soon be coming to our TV screens. Budding artist Louise France extols its joys.

Full frontal nudity! On Channel 4! Before lunch! You can imagine the knee-jerk reaction already but a wonderful new series on daytime television makes for some of the most unusual, thoughtful programme-making you're likely to experience. Meditative, slow-moving, repetitive - Today's Nude is everything that most television output isn't, and all the more magical for that.

Five half-hour episodes, each devoted to drawing or painting the naked figure, each starring just two people: the artist and the model. The conceptual artist Alan Kane has persuaded five very different "tutors" to take part: John Berger, Maggi Hambling, Gary Hume, Humphrey Ocean and Judy Purbeck. It was, he says, "a big ask" and not all of them jumped at the invitation. While Berger thought it the most original idea he'd heard for a long time, Hume, who had not done life drawing for years, was unsure. Hambling said she'd much rather do something about painting the sea but Kane coaxed her round.

Hambling ends up sketching a beautiful black model, Matthew Oghene, his back muscles rippling like sand in the desert. She's so taken with him that she gives him an affectionate pat on the tummy. "Life drawing is like a love affair," she says. "Hopefully one that doesn't end with a broken heart."

It's strangely compelling viewing. Mostly the camera is on the model, who does not move while the artist, out of view, sketches the figure and muses aloud on technique. Often they're simply silently working, the only sound the scratch of charcoal on paper. Nothing much happens (the phrase "watching paint dry" comes irresistibly to mind) but in a way everything happens - at the end of each programme you see a drawing or a painting that hadn't existed 30 minutes before. You may even, if Kane has his way, feel compelled to put down the remote control and draw the model yourself while you're watching.

"Life drawing has a reputation for being nerve-racking," he says, recalling his first life class, aged 17. 'It's a daunting prospect. It's the hardest arena to step into. A tough subject. People looking at what you've done. A tutor who may tear your work apart."

The programmes are a way of demystifying a practice that artists have grappled with for centuries. In advance of the broadcasts, there will be drop-in classes in London, Glasgow, Bristol, Manchester and Southampton where the public can have a go themselves, free of charge.

In my experience, life drawing is exquisite torture. I took it up five years ago, at 37, having abandoned art at school when I was 12. Before my first lesson I had serious second thoughts. Why was I putting myself though what was sure to be a public humiliation? The small room, stuffy with nervous adrenaline, was packed with focused 19-year-olds who all appeared to be there just to top up their portfolios.

I didn't even know how to put up the easel. When the model walked in and slipped off her dressing gown, striking a series of one-minute poses, I was floored: "Bloody hell. Do they not ease you in first? A discreet elbow, maybe a little bit of knee?" For five minutes I looked everywhere but the model until I realised that that really was not the point.

I wanted to give up after the first lesson but my friend Jane, who had been to art college, persuaded me to go back. I took to bringing my drawings home and pinning them up in the kitchen until a plumber came round and looked taken aback. Now I tend to shove them in the loft. I'm not sure I've improved. Occasionally I'm so frustrated I've been brought close to tears. Sometimes I think, Yes! I've got it! I am Michelangelo!, only for the tutor to point out that the left foot is so far away from the left knee it might as well be in the room next door.

"Every shape is worth enjoying. It's all a good bit," says the avuncular Humphrey Ocean as he dabs his paintbrush into muddy browns and pinks, and I realise that this is not only good advice for a life class but a most excellent approach to life in general too. Indeed, there is something about all the programmes which goes beyond the high white walls of the art studio. A meditative way of looking at the world, a knowledge that nothing is wholly right, or wholly wrong, that nobody is perfect. "I have a problem with necks," says Hambling. "Perhaps because I haven't got one myself."

"Don't think the model in your drawing has to look like someone their mother would recognise," says Ocean, and I feel like hugging him.

For me, life drawing is the one chance I have every week to stop, to look. However badly it might be going, my brain empties out, swoosh, like water down a plug hole. Afterwards I walk home and the world looks new, as if it's just stopped raining and the sun has come out. Everyone should try it. Today's Nude is a jolly good place to start.

• Life Class: Today's Nude [was] on Channel 4 from 6-10 July at 12.30pm. But the TV show can still be found online on YouTube.

TEXT: The Observer

A Daily Nude In Your Living Room [Blast From The Past]

By Louise France
The Observer, Sunday 21 June 2009

Life drawing is undergoing a boom in Britain, and it will soon be coming to our TV screens. Budding artist Louise France extols its joys.

Full frontal nudity! On Channel 4! Before lunch! You can imagine the knee-jerk reaction already but a wonderful new series on daytime television makes for some of the most unusual, thoughtful programme-making you're likely to experience. Meditative, slow-moving, repetitive - Today's Nude is everything that most television output isn't, and all the more magical for that.

Five half-hour episodes, each devoted to drawing or painting the naked figure, each starring just two people: the artist and the model. The conceptual artist Alan Kane has persuaded five very different "tutors" to take part: John Berger, Maggi Hambling, Gary Hume, Humphrey Ocean and Judy Purbeck. It was, he says, "a big ask" and not all of them jumped at the invitation. While Berger thought it the most original idea he'd heard for a long time, Hume, who had not done life drawing for years, was unsure. Hambling said she'd much rather do something about painting the sea but Kane coaxed her round.

Hambling ends up sketching a beautiful black model, Matthew Oghene, his back muscles rippling like sand in the desert. She's so taken with him that she gives him an affectionate pat on the tummy. "Life drawing is like a love affair," she says. "Hopefully one that doesn't end with a broken heart."

It's strangely compelling viewing. Mostly the camera is on the model, who does not move while the artist, out of view, sketches the figure and muses aloud on technique. Often they're simply silently working, the only sound the scratch of charcoal on paper. Nothing much happens (the phrase "watching paint dry" comes irresistibly to mind) but in a way everything happens - at the end of each programme you see a drawing or a painting that hadn't existed 30 minutes before. You may even, if Kane has his way, feel compelled to put down the remote control and draw the model yourself while you're watching.

"Life drawing has a reputation for being nerve-racking," he says, recalling his first life class, aged 17. 'It's a daunting prospect. It's the hardest arena to step into. A tough subject. People looking at what you've done. A tutor who may tear your work apart."

The programmes are a way of demystifying a practice that artists have grappled with for centuries. In advance of the broadcasts, there will be drop-in classes in London, Glasgow, Bristol, Manchester and Southampton where the public can have a go themselves, free of charge.

In my experience, life drawing is exquisite torture. I took it up five years ago, at 37, having abandoned art at school when I was 12. Before my first lesson I had serious second thoughts. Why was I putting myself though what was sure to be a public humiliation? The small room, stuffy with nervous adrenaline, was packed with focused 19-year-olds who all appeared to be there just to top up their portfolios.

I didn't even know how to put up the easel. When the model walked in and slipped off her dressing gown, striking a series of one-minute poses, I was floored: "Bloody hell. Do they not ease you in first? A discreet elbow, maybe a little bit of knee?" For five minutes I looked everywhere but the model until I realised that that really was not the point.

I wanted to give up after the first lesson but my friend Jane, who had been to art college, persuaded me to go back. I took to bringing my drawings home and pinning them up in the kitchen until a plumber came round and looked taken aback. Now I tend to shove them in the loft. I'm not sure I've improved. Occasionally I'm so frustrated I've been brought close to tears. Sometimes I think, Yes! I've got it! I am Michelangelo!, only for the tutor to point out that the left foot is so far away from the left knee it might as well be in the room next door.

"Every shape is worth enjoying. It's all a good bit," says the avuncular Humphrey Ocean as he dabs his paintbrush into muddy browns and pinks, and I realise that this is not only good advice for a life class but a most excellent approach to life in general too. Indeed, there is something about all the programmes which goes beyond the high white walls of the art studio. A meditative way of looking at the world, a knowledge that nothing is wholly right, or wholly wrong, that nobody is perfect. "I have a problem with necks," says Hambling. "Perhaps because I haven't got one myself."

"Don't think the model in your drawing has to look like someone their mother would recognise," says Ocean, and I feel like hugging him.

For me, life drawing is the one chance I have every week to stop, to look. However badly it might be going, my brain empties out, swoosh, like water down a plug hole. Afterwards I walk home and the world looks new, as if it's just stopped raining and the sun has come out. Everyone should try it. Today's Nude is a jolly good place to start.

• Life Class: Today's Nude [was] on Channel 4 from 6-10 July at 12.30pm. But the TV show can still be found online on YouTube.

TEXT: The Observer

Sex and the City: Charlotte & Harry Season 6 [Humour]

Harry moves in and Charlotte is bothered by some of his habits.

Naked Amazon Awa tribe initiate BBC [Video]

Justin Rowlatt was forced to adopt the traditional dress of one of Brazil's last nomadic people while on a hunting trip.

The global demand for Brazil's resources, in particular from China, is affecting its indigenous people, like the Awa.

They live almost entirely off what they can find in the forest, but logging and farming is threatening their way of life.

TEXT/VIDEO: BBC News

Burger Byte: Nudist Camp [Video]

Here is a video from WAAYTV.com- Huntsville, Alabama Television with a light-hearted news segment of naturism at naturist club in the USA.

Paula Abdul throws up after X-Factor nude performance [Showbiz]

[On the 'US' X-Factor] judge Paula Abdul leaves the set and throws up in the men’s restroom, after leaving the set during a contestant’s nude performance. The nudity approach did not impress the judges, as the contestant had hoped.

Wednesday on the premiere of X-Factor, wannabe singer Geo Godley gave an extremely odd performance, that will be remembered in the television show world for a long, long time. But not in a good way! Godley was dressed in a large shining silver jacket and silver baggy pants. He wore a T-shirt with a big rainbow heart and we don’t even remember his shoes. The clothes are somehow important, because at one point, he had trouble keeping them on. And it’s not that is was an accident. About a minute after starting singing, he dropped his pants and kept on jumping up and down the stage. The show horrified the two ladies in the jury – singers Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger. Nicole started screaming and Paula tried to cover her eyes with her ponytail. Simon Cowell was horrified and L.A. Reid was speechless.



At one point, poor Paula couldn’t take it anymore and walked straight out of the set. She stopped in the men’s restroom, probably without even thinking to find the ladies room. Seeing Abdul leave, Godley said: “Uh-oh I think I’m in trouble”, but continued his act. Backstage, Paula Abdul was given some water to freshen up. When she felt a little bit better, she said: “I just witnessed a nightmare…on stage!”

After the performance was over, the contestant put his pants on while de jury and the public were still in shock. Simon was the first one who gave a feedback to the contestant. He was honest and concise: “What the bloody hell was that?”

Needless to say it was his first and only performance.

TEXT: Daily Gossip

The naked truth: British stars bare all in fight against TV ageism [Showbiz]

Some of British TV's most familiar female faces have dared to bare to prove that no matter how old they are, they should not be subjected to ageism.

Loose Women Sherrie Hewson and Andrea McLean posed naked alongside Coronation Street's Beverley Callard and EastEnders actress Gillian Taylforth for Best magazine's Body Image issue.

The ladies spoke of the way that women, despite their talent, can be denied roles on camera simply because producers believe them to be too old...

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TEXT: Mail Online

**BLAST FROM THE PAST** Tuning in for Naked News

Thursday, 26 April, 2001

A television current affairs programme featuring newsreaders who undress on camera has become a surprise success in Russia. Now a Canadian company hopes to do the same, as Katty Kay reports from Washington.

BBC News Online has a competitor. According to no lesser authority than Time magazine, the website Naked News "offers the best international coverage this side of the BBC".

Billed as the channel with nothing to hide, Naked News, is, as its name suggests, a news programme presented by naked news readers.

The channel covers politics, business, sport and entertainment - all naked.


For those of you who would like a little more spice with your daily news intake, Naked News might be for you.

And, it seems, for the six million other people who tune in every month. In the age of dot bomb, Naked News is defying the trend and going from strength to strength.

Viewer numbers have grown three-fold since the start of the year. This month, due to popular demand, the channel has added a man to its presenting team.

Lucas Tyler, 33, a former investment advisor for a Canadian bank, has just earned the curious distinction of becoming the world's first naked male news reader.

Naked News aspires to serious broadcasting.

"We never see it as a pornography site. Nudity is not sex," says company spokeswoman Kathy Pinckert.

Mixed signals

The channel garners its information from regular news wires and uses professionally trained writers and directors to produce the bulletins. None of the presenters however have any background in journalism.

So what is it like to watch nude news?

The daily programme begins in pretty familiar territory. Presenter Carmen Russo stands in the studio dressed in a black suit and begins to read an item on Taiwanese arms sales. It looks serious enough.

But after a few moments it all gets very confusing. Half way through the Japanese election result Ms Russo is taking off her jacket.

On to the shooting of the Peruvian missionary plane and it's off with her pink lacy bra. And by the time we have finished the Middle East peace talks, Ms Russo is completely naked.

Maybe my brain lacks horsepower but I simply cannot concentrate on the intricacies of world affairs while watching a strip show.

News content

"I think people are watching it for the news not the nakedness, after all you can get nakedness anywhere on the net," she says.

Ms Foster loves her job and accredits the channel's success to that classic combination of brains and beauty. The 31-year-old was working as a laser ophthalmic technician when she saw the advertisement recruiting for Naked News.

The closest she had come to broadcasting was a few acting classes . But she says she just loves the creative side of her new job.

Does the nudity faze her? Not as much as getting her slight lisp under control.

Now, with the introduction of a male presenter, Naked News hopes to attract more women to its audience.

At the moment 80% of the viewers are men. According to the company, they are tuning in primarily for the news. I guess they must be men with a better attention span than me.


TEXT: BBC News