Broadcast Magazine 1/03.2001
Tony Garnett has built up an enviable drama portfolio, including This Life and Between the Lines, but what’s next for the maverick producer?
Articles
Tony Garnett
Biography
BFI Retrospective
Blog Posts
Villa Winning!?! 
Cathy Come Home - 50 years on Upcoming Events 
Trumpism Obesity and the NHS 
Writing your story 
Fighting exploitation in the film & TV industry 
Corbyn and Attlee 
Events 
The Day The Music Died 
On Performance Nurturing creativity in filmmaking 
BECTU Freelancers' Fair 2016: Political Drama 
Response to the BBC White Paper 
Old books, new blog post 
On Success and Failure Goodbye Facebook? 
CBI and Mussolini 
Orgreave 
CBEEBIES 
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' 
Off-Cut: Attachments 
Off-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 Events
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
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 YoutubeFamily 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
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
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: 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 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)
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 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
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 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