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Tony Garnett (1936 – 2020)
Producer, Writer
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The Wednesday Play
Producer:
Tony Garnett,
Director:
James MacTaggart,
Writer:
Nemone Lethbridge
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Off-Cut: Law and Order - 1916
Off-Cut: Kes - the football scene
Football is about family
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Off-Cut: Ballykissangel
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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
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'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
'The BBC should explore the world beyond London' - article by Tony Garnett :The Observer - 17/04/2016
A back street abortion killed my mom and changed my life - Article in The Irish Times 09/07/2016
Advocacy and the union representative - Blog piece on PCS Union website 06/05/2016
Article on Broadcast Now website (Subscribers only) - 26/04/2016
BBC Breakfast - TV Interview 08/07/2016
BBC iPlayer Radio 3 - Free Thinking with Matthew Sweet: 'Tony Garnett' 45m (broadcast 29 June 2016 10pm)
BBC Radio 4 - Unforgettable - Tony Garnett/Mary Whitehouse
BBC Radio London Robert Elms - Listed Londoner 04/07/2016
BBC West Midlands - Short interview with Adrian Goldberg (starts 1h: 47min into clip)
Putting our class on the screen - Interview in Socialist Worker 06/05/2016
Saints of Somewhere (Audio blog) 'Tony Garnett' 13/07/2016
Tony 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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In Black and White
Off-Cut: Save the Children Fund
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After a Lifetime
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The Birth of a Private Man
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1963 Radio Times Article
An Age of Kings
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World Productions
Born Kicking
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Between the Lines
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Cardiac Arrest
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Ballykissangel
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This Life
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This Life + 10
The Cops
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Buried
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Lilies
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Rough Diamond
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Football is about family
Off-Cut: Kes - the football scene
'A typical reaction was a snigger... I was making a film about the wrong kind of bird'
Saying goodbye to Barry Hines
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Family Life
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Black Jack
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Prostitute
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Handgun
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Follow That Bird
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Earth Girls are Easy
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Fat Man and Little Boy
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Beautiful Thing
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Up The Junction
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Cathy Come Home
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"We need drama people believe in"
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Cathy Come Home - 50 years on
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‘Cathy Come Home’ and ‘Accuracy’ in British Television Drama
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The Little Master Mind
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The Lump
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The Spongers
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The inspiration behind 'The Spongers'
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In Two Minds
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The Voices in the Park
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Drums Along the Avon
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An Officer of the Court
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The Golden Vision
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The Gorge
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Some Women
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Ken Tynan Article 1968
The Big Flame
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The Parachute
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The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
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Hard Labour
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Blooming Youth
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The Enemy Within
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Days of Hope
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The Price of Coal
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Off-Cut: The Ones That Got Away
Off-Cut: The Producing MA
Off-Cut: Beautiful Thing
Off-Cut: Kes - the football scene
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Off-Cut: Prostitute
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The Aneurin Bevan Memorial Lecture, 2060
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The Seductions of Lucy Foster
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Free Love
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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
It's a Cop Out
‘Cathy Come Home’ and ‘Accuracy’ in British Television Drama
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)
A REAL BOBBY
World Champion
It’s a Big World After All
Research by Karen Shepherdson (2001)
Articles by TG
Barry Hines 1939 - 2016
Drowning By Numbers - New Statesman
Jim Allen Obituary
Off-Cut: The Ones That Got Away
Off-Cut: The Producing MA
Off-Cut: Attachments
Remembering Barry Hines
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
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
Crisis - Ending Homelessness
Notes from the Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, 1996
Reading University Speech 1998
For the love of it: in praise of the amateur
And More...
'The BBC should explore the world beyond London' - article by Tony Garnett :The Observer - 17/04/2016
A back street abortion killed my mom and changed my life - Article in The Irish Times 09/07/2016
Advocacy and the union representative - Blog piece on PCS Union website 06/05/2016
Article on Broadcast Now website (Subscribers only) - 26/04/2016
BAFTA | Heritage Screenings | Cathy Come Home
BBC Breakfast - TV Interview 08/07/2016
BBC iPlayer Radio 3 - Free Thinking with Matthew Sweet: 'Tony Garnett' 45m (broadcast 29 June 2016 10pm)
BBC Radio 4 - Unforgettable - Tony Garnett/Mary Whitehouse
BBC Radio London Robert Elms - Listed Londoner 04/07/2016
BBC West Midlands - Short interview with Adrian Goldberg (starts 1h: 47min into clip)
BFI - My Directorial Debut: 'Prostitute'
BFI - The Spongers: fiercely relevant at 35 years old
BFI Archive - Tony Garnett: Seeing Red
BFI Video: Tony Garnett in Conversation
IMDB Entry
Interview - History Workshop Online
Interview on wsws.org The struggle to tell the truth through stories: Oct 2013 - Part 1
Interview on wsws.org The struggle to tell the truth through stories: Oct 2013 - Part 2
Maggie Brown Interview - Guardian 28/04/13
Putting our class on the screen - Interview in Socialist Worker 06/05/2016
Saints of Somewhere (Audio blog) 'Tony Garnett' 13/07/2016
Tony Garnett: The backstreet abortion that destroyed my family - The Guardian 02/07/2016
Tracking Changes - BFI Interview 16/05/13
Wikipedia Entry
‘Sixties television was utter rubbish. The same is true now’ - Article by Andrew Billen in The Times 11/07/2016