One of the things I all the time had to fight for, and always did, making the movies, was, publicity. It seemed to me, there’s no level in making the damn issues if nobody’s going to observe ’em. So I always made sure on the BBC, I rang up the publicity people and I always made positive that the press got copies and all that stuff.
And we did a follow-up one a few years later, a couple of years later, known as Stitching Up The NHS where we kind of edited out issues and we… Because by that time the whole stress on the NHS was really growing, and the whole privatisation debate was growing. So we, we kind of, brought it up to date with Stitching Up The NHS. That was an fascinating one, that was an fascinating form of censorship. John Willis is very respected and he’s a, I’m positive, a very clever and revered man, however he’s, he hated Vanson Wardle.
It was at around this time that Linda was contacted by Vietnamese singer Andy Quach to record some tracks for his CD Showtime. Andy then launched Linda to Van Son Productions and she or he flew right back to Taiwan to carry out on her first Vietnamese selection present. Linda and Andy performed a duet “Tinh Mai Ben Nhau” where they both sang in Mandarin and Vietnamese. The music became an enormous hit and was also the start of Linda’s profession within the Vietnamese music business. This biography of a living person wants additional citations for verification, as its solely attribution is to self-published sources; articles should not be based solely on such sources.
But again it was very very troublesome. I imply I’m, I have to say that, at the end of doing all, the 2 documentaries and the film, the Lawrences, you realize, Doreen invited… And obviously after the, the inquiry that Michael did, and the case had collapsed, and I imply, they had a horrible time, Dorreen, you understand, we’re fine now, I imply she’s fantastic. It’s not, it wasn’t private. I, at one level I thought, is it me, you realize, however truly, it wasn’t. She just discovered it so troublesome.
Tony did completely great interviews with them, very very, I was very pleased with that. A quite simple movie, simply talking heads like this, simply individuals telling it how it is. You don’t need to do more if it’s a strong story.
And, we didn’t know, what have we done this time? We knew it might something wrong. And, she simply said, ‘There’s not enough blue on display.’ And we went, ‘What does that mean? ’ She needed more of the senior cops during the second phase of the writing process, you conduct research,, senior police officers we had interviewed about Orgreave looking back, wished extra of it in. Liz Forgan, if you’re watching this… We’re not going to try this.