I'm passing along this note from Bob Chitester, the producer of the Free to Choose videos in the 80s and January's biography of Milton Friedman that aired on PBS. I saw a preview of this video at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Guatemala and highly recommend it. There's a trailer available on the website.

I'm writing to alert you to some very good news: the upcoming high definition, prime time broadcast of the most recent one hour documentary from Free to Choose Media on HDNet. The first broadcast will be Tuesday, April 24 at 10pm, with frequent repeats thereafter.

I think you will find that "The Ultimate Resource" is a stunningly beautiful and dramatic program that demonstrates in pictures and words the amazing things that can happen when ordinary people are given the tools of freedom to improve their lives. When this happens, according to the noted economist Julian Simon on whose ideas this new program is based, they profit not only themselves but the rest of us as well.

"The Ultimate Resource" was shot on location by a Free to Choose Media Team headed by Kathy Anderson with Jim Taylor and Barbara Potter. Tom Skinner and I shared the role of Executive Producer. The program documents the success of private schools in Ghana, the impact of the awarding of property rights to rural farmers in Peru, the amazing effect of microfinance on the poor of Bangladesh, and the amazing impact of free markets and entrepreneurship in Estonia and China.

The program features James Tooley, Muhammad Yunus, Hernando de Soto and Johan Norberg. You will want to see each of them in action on location in this beautifully produced film. I believe that this is a superb example of how Free to Choose Media is going about its mission of "using easily understood and entertaining popular media to reach inquisitive minds regarding the value and interrelationship of personal, economic and political freedom sustained by the rule of law."

For more information and for a video preview, go to www.freetochoosemedia.org For more information about HDNet, go to: www.hd.net

Sincerely,

Bob Chitester
President
Free to Choose Media