There is one rule that cannot be broken and that is each story and event must be contained within one day. Sometimes this leads the show into trouble. The episode on Black September, being the multiple hijackings of planes from the UK, the US and Switzerland and the bringing them together at a disused airstrip in Jordan, doesn't so much overlook the fact that the situation lasted for six days, which is mentioned, but is only really interested in what happened on the last day when the final 141 hostages were evacuated from the site and the planes blown up. Similarly, the Six Day War is covered only in the battle in Jerusalem while the meltdown of the reactor at Chernobyl only deals with the first day not the more interesting stories that came as those charged with cooling the reactor walked to certain death. And when it comes to the death of Princess Diana, an event that continues to fill columns in the newspapers and that occupies hours of television hours still, the show's self-imposed limit of one day forces it to a stop soon after Diana passes away. Other than a brief glimpse of people crying against the gates of Buckingham Palace, we don't get to see the quite insane public mourning that carried on over the next week.Watch using FLASH movie player format
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