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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
Acting
World Productions
Born Kicking
Between the Lines
Cardiac Arrest
Ballykissangel
This Life
The Cops
Attachments
Buried
Lilies
Rough Diamond
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
Black Jack
Prostitute
Handgun
Follow That Bird
Earth Girls are Easy
Fat Man and Little Boy
Beautiful Thing
BBC
Up The Junction
Cathy Come Home










The Little Master Mind
The Lump
The Spongers
In Two Minds
The Voices in the Park
Drums Along the Avon
An Officer of the Court
The Golden Vision
The Gorge
Some Women
The Big Flame
The Parachute
The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
Hard Labour
Blooming Youth
Steven
The Enemy Within
Days of Hope
The Price of Coal
Law and Order
Five Minute Films
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Unpublished Writing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 
Off-Cut: Beautiful Thing
Off-Cut: Kes - the football scene 
Off-Cut: Attachments 
Off-Cut: The Golden Vision 
Off-Cut: Prostitute
Off-Cut: Cardiac Arrest
The Aneurin Bevan Memorial Lecture, 2060 
Off-Cut: Between The Lines 




















The Seductions of Lucy Foster
Marine Ices
Free Love
The Day the Music Died
Archive
Books About TG
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










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