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Michael Winterbottom is the most prolific and the most audacious of British filmmakers in the last twenty years. His television career began in the cutting-rooms at Thames Television, and his first directing experience was on the Thames TV documentaries,
lack of venturesomeness. He would surely have respected what these two young men, whose early careers he fostered, have achieved. Winterbottom’s television career began in the cutting-rooms at Thames Television, and his first directing experience was on the Thames TV documentaries, Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern and Ingmar Bergman: The Director , made in 1988 and first screened on ITV and Channel 4
elevant example). In many ways this began during the 1980s when a deteriorating situation in Northern Ireland caused the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher progressively to remove the various public voices of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) from the broadcast media. In the case of At the Edge of the Union, a 1985 BBC television documentary in the Real Lives series, the BBC bowed to pressure and removed the programme from their schedules. In 1988 the Thames Television documentary series This Week investigated the killing in Gibraltar by the Special Air