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Blair, Milburn and Hattersley: a modern morality
Blair, the man who stole the Labour Party and delivered it to Thatcherism, is now in a different frame of mind. A Land Tax, no less. A tax proposed a century ago by the Liberals, taken up later by Labour, and defeated by the land owning Tories in the Lords. It is indeed a no brainer. read more…
Socialism without the free artist becomes Stalinism
I’ve been a trade unionist all my working life. I have always believed that in unity is strength. But for me economism, the trade unionism of not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day, is not enough. I’ve always been on the side of revolution, by which I mean a qualitative shift in the power relations of society, so that workers control capital. read more…
Villa Winning!?!
Crisis at Villa Park!!
Trashing of tradition. Fans in severe distress.
Who is to blame?
This emotionally disorientating behaviour began with the appointment of Steve Bruce as manager, though collusion right up to the boardroom is suspected. read more…
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Socialism without the free artist becomes Stalinism 
Villa Winning!?! 
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Trumpism Obesity and the NHS 
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The Day The Music Died 
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BECTU Freelancers' Fair 2016: Political Drama 
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On Success and Failure Goodbye Facebook? 
CBI and Mussolini 
Orgreave 
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Junior doctors are the new miners of 1984 
The inspiration behind 'The Spongers' 
Arnold Wesker, Jim Allen and Perdition Remembering Barry Hines 
Saying goodbye to Barry Hines Villa Park 
Off-Cut: Law and Order - 1916 Off-Cut: Kes - the football scene Football is about family Barry Hines 1939 - 2016 
Don’t blame the old Etonians. Some of them are even good actors. Tory sale of council houses and Labour’s PFI. A connection? Sure! “Two steps forward, one step back”: Vladimir Ilyich Hunt goes into enemy territory, The Guardian, and becomes Nye Bevan. Beware a Tory with his “hurt” face on So the penny has finally dropped, eh? Get with the programme, Dave Prentis! Privatisation of the NHS by stealth started with Blair. Think these refugees are a problem? @yanisvaroufakis - find your answer to Europe vote. Remembering Jim Allen Kids Company Google Tax The Aneurin Bevan Memorial Lecture, 2060 Steve Hilton Today 'The BBC Made Me' 
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Tony Garnett on the BBC Files The Wednesday Play: Aims and Policy Sydney Newman defends The Wednesday Play D.A.N. Jones on Sidney Newman [sic] - The Listener 1967 A Discussion with Frank Kermode "Committed" Plays in Television Huw Wheldon's near resignation over 'Up The Junction' 'Days of Hope' - going to extremes (The Listener 1975) 'Days of Hope': various BBC correspondence 'Five Women': correspondence with Huw Wheldon 'Law and Order': various BBC correspondence Control over Subject Matter in BBC Television MI5 and the Christmas Tree files - secret political vetting at the BBC Events
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The Day the Music Died
Tony Garnett has spent his life telling other people’s stories. Now, for the first time, he will tell his own in his new autobiography. Honest, moving and passionate, The Day the Music Died, is a book dedicated to the truth. It is now available to buy on Amazon. read more…
Topsy Jane
I received a link to this extraordinary video from my son, Will, about his Mom. My first love. Topsy Jane.
She disappeared. What happened? My memoir, The Day The Music Died, painfully explains….
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Tony Garnett on the BBC Files The Wednesday Play: Aims and Policy Sydney Newman defends The Wednesday Play D.A.N. Jones on Sidney Newman [sic] - The Listener 1967 A Discussion with Frank Kermode "Committed" Plays in Television Huw Wheldon's near resignation over 'Up The Junction' 'Days of Hope' - going to extremes (The Listener 1975) 'Days of Hope': various BBC correspondence 'Five Women': correspondence with Huw Wheldon 'Law and Order': various BBC correspondence Control over Subject Matter in BBC Television MI5 and the Christmas Tree files - secret political vetting at the BBC Latest interviews and articles online
'The BBC should explore the world beyond London' - article by Tony Garnett :The Observer - 17/04/2016A back street abortion killed my mom and changed my life - Article in The Irish Times 09/07/2016Advocacy and the union representative - Blog piece on PCS Union website 06/05/2016Article on Broadcast Now website (Subscribers only) - 26/04/2016BBC Breakfast - TV Interview 08/07/2016BBC iPlayer Radio 3 - Free Thinking with Matthew Sweet: 'Tony Garnett' 45m (broadcast 29 June 2016 10pm)BBC Radio 4 - Unforgettable - Tony Garnett/Mary WhitehouseBBC Radio London Robert Elms - Listed Londoner 04/07/2016BBC West Midlands - Short interview with Adrian Goldberg (starts 1h: 47min into clip)Putting our class on the screen - Interview in Socialist Worker 06/05/2016Saints of Somewhere (Audio blog) 'Tony Garnett' 13/07/2016Tony Garnett: The backstreet abortion that destroyed my family - The Guardian 02/07/2016‘Sixties television was utter rubbish. The same is true now’ - Article by Andrew Billen in The Times 11/07/2016
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Jim Allen Obituary TV Cathy's sons plead for video Production Notes from Beautiful Thing Doyen attacks “poison” in TV industry Ken Loach Variety Dec 15, 1997 The Observer - TV's Secret Godfather Cathy Come Home left out in cold by BBC row Kes ‘Cathy Come Home’ and ‘Accuracy’ in British Television Drama It's a Cop Out When This Life entered our lives... Dot.com drama starts up on BBC2 Welcome to seethru INTERFERENCE - CV: Tony Garnett In Praise of the Great Unknowns Autumn 2000 BBC 2 Season The Cops call it a day after three series Setting sites on the Net The beat goes on... (Bafta 2000 magazine) Attachments article AfterLife (circa 2000) World Champion It’s a Big World After All Research by Karen Shepherdson (2001) How to kill creativity while claiming to help it grow. Interviews
"We need drama people believe in" 
Tracking Changes - BFI Interview 2014 'A typical reaction was a snigger... I was making a film about the wrong kind of bird' 
On BBC News 'HARDtalk' with Stephen Sackur 
On BBC Radio 3 'Free Thinking' with Matthew Sweet Podcast - BBC Radio 5 Live Afternoon Edition - July 11 Theatre Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 6, April-June 1972 THIS LIFE, THIS ART KICKING OVER THE TRACES – Interview with Tony Garnett Extracts from an Interview August 2000 A REAL BOBBY Meet the producer
Tracking Changes - BFI Interview 2014 'A typical reaction was a snigger... I was making a film about the wrong kind of bird' On BBC News 'HARDtalk' with Stephen Sackur On BBC Radio 3 'Free Thinking' with Matthew Sweet Podcast - BBC Radio 5 Live Afternoon Edition - July 11 Theatre Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 6, April-June 1972 THIS LIFE, THIS ART KICKING OVER THE TRACES – Interview with Tony Garnett Extracts from an Interview August 2000 A REAL BOBBY Meet the producer Speeches
Sydney Newman Memorial Service - 5th February 1998 Tony Garnett talks about THE COPS - November 1998 Recipe for a dust-up (Drama Forum) Performance With Banners Held High - the BBC and miners strikes Screenplay A Message For Graduates - Creatively Disrupt Notes from the Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, 1996 Reading University Speech 1998 For the love of it: in praise of the amateur
Tony Garnett talks about THE COPS - November 1998 Recipe for a dust-up (Drama Forum) Performance With Banners Held High - the BBC and miners strikes Screenplay A Message For Graduates - Creatively Disrupt Notes from the Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, 1996 Reading University Speech 1998 For the love of it: in praise of the amateur