Life in a Day (2011 film) part of the "elite" and to show the intricacy and strangeness of the seemingly mundane." Macdonald began his "Around the world in 80,000 clips" article in "The Guardian" by posing the questions, ""What do you love? What do you fear? What's in your pocket?"" and explaining that "one day last summer, I asked ordinary people around the world to answer those three questions and spend a day filming their lives." The 80,000 individual clips received amounted to 4,500 hours of electronic footage. Macdonald explained that about 75% of the film's content came from people contacted through YouTube, traditional advertising, TV
Doctor Who in Australia at 7:30pm Boxing Day, only around 12 hours after it had finished in the UK. In 45 years of broadcasting "Doctor Who" this was the shortest delay between UK and Australian transmission. Earlier that day ABC1 had also screened "Doctor Who at the Proms". From the following week, commencing with "The End of Time" Part 1, they repeated David Tennant's finale followed by Series 5 in various timeslots close to 5:30pm, ending with "The Big Bang" on 24 April. By 2011 the UK/Australia gap was down to just one week, with the first half of Series 6 going out on