This change is beyond us, perhaps, during the active, greedy and powerful hours of our lives, but during the contemplative and sympathetic hours of our reading, our listening, our looking, it is surely within our power, if we choose to make it so, if we choose to let one part of our nature follow its natural desires.
A Powerful Hour-ful America simply could not resist Mr. Berle and "Texaco Star Theater".
No prime-ministerial-pig-bothering in this episode of Charlie Brooker's dystopian set of one-off dramas, but it's a far more powerful hour of television.
On Sunday night a news channel in India banned by the government from showing India's Daughter responded with a powerful hour-long on-air protest in the slot in which it had intended to broadcast it.
He humbly delivered a powerful hour-long speech on leadership — without notes or slides, as he paced the stage, hands in pockets.
And for that powerful hour, as clouds passed beside us and the world existed two days of walking away from us, we talked.
Earlier, the liberal Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, who is driving much of the Democratic opposition to trade, launched a withering attack on Obama's economic agenda on Tuesday, suggesting his administration was "captive to the rich and powerful" just hours before the critical Senate vote.
From the exhausted applause that carried Objekt's powerful two hours to a close, to the final throng stood battered by Rødhåd's Berliner excellence, the mood had reached that normally unreachable deranged joy exclusive to sessions just like this.
There was also a powerful half-hour version of Common Wealth's No Guts, No Heart, No Glory, a wonderful piece about the hopes and dreams of young female Muslim boxers.
Stamper's description of this culture is damning: "Military, bureaucratic, insulated, isolated giving rise to a real strong in-group solidarity among the officers, and that is more powerful than eight hours or even 60 hours of training".
A few thousand like-minded people round the world, talking to each other, is far more powerful than 24 hours of Radio 1. "You don't know what's going to happen next.
