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A Question of Leadership 18

Ken Loach, UK, 1980, 30m.

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Ken Loach's examination of Thatcherism's impact on the trade unions was made for ATV, and scheduled to appear on ITV network on 5 August 1980. But after the Independent Broadcasting Authority found it in breach of impartiality rules, ATV was forced to withdraw it. Eventually, cut by 12 minutes to accommodate a 'balancing' programme, it was broadcast a year later, late-night and only in the midlands region.


The programme presents a debate among rank-and-file trade unionists, with space also given to two officials of steelworkers' union the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, one of whom becomes engaged in a heated exchange with a steelworker. These scenes clearly prefigure the debate over land reform in Loach's Land and Freedom (1995). - BFI, screenonline

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