Tony Garnett (1936 – 2020)
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Tony Garnett

Biography
Biography TG at the BBC
BFI Retrospective
Tracking Changes - BFI Interview 2014 In Conversation with Mark Lawson 2013
Blog Posts
Crisis - Ending Homelessness Tony BlairBlair, Milburn and Hattersley: a modern morality Socialism without the free artist becomes Stalinism Villa Winning!?! Cathy Come Home - 50 years on Donald Trump campaigningTrumpism Obesity and the NHS 3rd Draft of The Day The Music DiedWriting your story BECTUFighting exploitation in the film & TV industry Clement AttleeCorbyn and Attlee The Day The Music DiedEvents Tony Garnett - The Day The Music DiedThe Day The Music Died Tony Garnett - The BoysOn Performance Nurturing creativity in filmmaking Freelancers Fair BECTU 2016BECTU Freelancers' Fair 2016: Political Drama BBC WhitepaperResponse to the BBC White Paper R D LaingOld books, new blog post On Success and Failure Goodbye Facebook? MussoliniCBI and Mussolini Battle of OrgreaveOrgreave BING CBEEBIESCBEEBIES Junior doctors are the new miners of 1984 The SpongersThe inspiration behind 'The Spongers' Sir Arnold WeskerArnold Wesker, Jim Allen and Perdition Remembering Barry Hines Saying goodbye to Barry Hines Villa Park Kilmainham Gaol Prison Source: Wikimedia | Antonio CameloOff-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' BBC AttachmentsOff-Cut: Attachments BallykissangelOff-Cut: Ballykissangel
The BBC Files
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

'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

Screen

Other

In Black and White
Off-Cut: Save the Children Fund Details
After a Lifetime
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Acting

The Boys
Details Youtube (excerpt)
The Birth of a Private Man
Details 1963 Radio Times Article
An Age of Kings
Details Youtube (Documentary with TG)

World Productions

Born Kicking
Details
Between the Lines
Details Off-Cut: Between The Lines
Cardiac Arrest
Off-Cut: Cardiac Arrest Details
Ballykissangel
BallykissangelOff-Cut: Ballykissangel Details Youtube
This Life
Details This Life + 10
The Cops
Details Youtube
Attachments
Details BBC AttachmentsOff-Cut: Attachments
Buried
Detail
Lilies
Details Youtube (Episode 1)
Rough Diamond
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Cinema

Kes
Gallery Details 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 Youtube
Family Life
Details Youtube
Black Jack
Details Youtube
Prostitute
Details Prostitute 1980Off-Cut: Prostitute
Handgun
Details Youtube (trailer)
Follow That Bird
Details Youtube (trailer)
Earth Girls are Easy
Details Youtube (trailer)
Fat Man and Little Boy
Details Youtube (trailer)
Beautiful Thing
Beautiful ThingOff-Cut: Beautiful Thing Beautiful ThingDetails Youtube (trailer)

BBC

Up The Junction
Details YouTube
Cathy Come Home
Details "We need drama people believe in" Grace Wyndham Goldie Article 1967 Cathy Come Home - 50 years on Gallery Cathy Come Home left out in cold by BBC row ‘Cathy Come Home’ and ‘Accuracy’ in British Television Drama Youtube (not free)
The Little Master Mind
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The Lump
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The Spongers
Details The SpongersThe inspiration behind 'The Spongers' Youtube
In Two Minds
Details Youtube
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
Details The Golden Vision FilmOff-Cut: The Golden Vision Youtube
The Gorge
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Some Women
Off-Cut: Five Women Details Correspondence with Huw Wheldon Ken Tynan Article 1968
The Big Flame
Details Gallery Youtube (not free)
The Parachute
Off-Cut: The Parachute Details
The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
Off-Cut: Arturo Ui Details
Hard Labour
Details Youtube (scene)
Blooming Youth
Details Youtube
Steven
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The Enemy Within
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Days of Hope
Details Youtube
The Price of Coal
Off-Cut: The Price of Coal Details YouTube
Law and Order
Details Kilmainham Gaol Prison Source: Wikimedia | Antonio CameloOff-Cut: Law and Order - 1916
Five Minute Films
The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final Old Chums Afternoon A Light Snack Probation Youtube

Books

Unpublished Writing
Off-Cut: Five Women Off-Cut: The Parachute Off-Cut: Arturo Ui Off-Cut: The Price of Coal Off-Cut: Save the Children Fund Off-Cut: The Ones That Got Away Off-Cut: The Producing MA Beautiful ThingOff-Cut: Beautiful Thing Off-Cut: Kes - the football scene BBC AttachmentsOff-Cut: Attachments The Golden Vision FilmOff-Cut: The Golden Vision Prostitute 1980Off-Cut: Prostitute Off-Cut: Cardiac Arrest The Aneurin Bevan Memorial Lecture, 2060 Off-Cut: Between The Lines
The Seductions of Lucy Foster
Details Introduction by TG
Marine Ices
Details Introduction by TG
Free Love
Details Introduction by TG
The Day the Music Died
The Day The Music DiedThe Day the Music Died Topsy Jane

Archive

Books About TG
Bibliography: Tony Garnett Looking at Class
Articles About TG
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 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 BBC AttachmentsOff-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 - 17/04/2016A 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) - 26/04/2016BAFTA | Heritage Screenings | Cathy Come HomeBBC 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)BFI - My Directorial Debut: 'Prostitute'BFI - The Spongers: fiercely relevant at 35 years oldBFI Archive - Tony Garnett: Seeing RedBFI Video: Tony Garnett in ConversationIMDB EntryInterview - History Workshop OnlineInterview on wsws.org The struggle to tell the truth through stories: Oct 2013 - Part 1Interview on wsws.org The struggle to tell the truth through stories: Oct 2013 - Part 2Maggie Brown Interview - Guardian 28/04/13Putting 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 02/07/2016Tracking Changes - BFI Interview 16/05/13Wikipedia Entry‘Sixties television was utter rubbish. The same is true now’ - Article by Andrew Billen in The Times 11/07/2016

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"I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know?"

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