Thatcher vs. The Miners, the company’s first feature documentary.
The film plans to use new evidence, including the miners’ own footage, along with first-person testimony, archive footage and journalism to explore the conflict between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government and the National Union of Mineworkers, that occurred nearly 40 years ago.
Cabinet papers obtained for the documentary reveal the enormity of the conflict between Thatcher and union leader Arthur Scargill. The film also features interviews with miners’ leaders and union officials from the time, striking and working miners, and three members of Thatcher’s staff: Lord Robin Butler, Lord Andrew Turnbull and Lord Stephen Sherborne.
BBC2 has commissioned a 60-minute doc feature exploring sewage from Tern Television, part of Zinc Media Group.
Ordered for the BBC’s flagship Horizon strand and produced in partnership with The Open University, this follow-up to Tern’s RTS-winning and Grierson-nominated
The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History, finds George McGavin and Zoe Laughlin (pictured), along with a team of scientists, wade in to expose
The Secret Science of Sewage.
The documentary explores the biology, chemistry, natural history and social history of feces from inside the pools, tanks and bowels of one of the UK’s largest and most technologically-advanced sewage works.