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Bbc drama is studio—bound, let's get out there in the street with the guys that shoot documentaries and make, you know... make it real, in that sort of spontaneous and alive way. but just thinking about some of your films and the way that you have explored social issues, whether that's unemployment in meantime, or back street abortion in vera drake, or class and race in secrets and lies, do you regard yourself as a political film—maker? yes, i do. i mean, i think that my films, with the arguable exception of peterloo, which is obviously about the peterloo massacre and is, without any quest...

You have explored social issues, whether that's unemployment in meantime, or back street abortion in vera drake, or class and race in secrets and lies, do you regard yourself as a political film—maker? yes, i do. i mean, i think that my films, with the arguable exception of peterloo, which is obviously about the peterloo massacre and is, without any question, a simple statement about democracy, i think my films must be understood to be implicitly political, rather than overtly political. you once said, i'm going to quote you here, "i know i return endlessly "to the same preoccupations, but i...

On in the �*60s, with the work that he and tony garnett, whom i also used to work with in television, bbc. their great revolution was to say, well, let's not... bbc drama is studio—bound. let's get out there in the street with the guys that shoot documentaries and make, you know... make it real, in that sort of spontaneous and alive way. but just thinking about some of your films and the way that you have explored social issues, whether that's unemployment in meantime, or back street abortion in vera drake, or class and race in secrets and lies, do you regard yourself as a political filmma...

Later on in the �*60s, with the work that he and tony garnett, who i used to work with in television, bbc. their great revolution was to say, well, let's not... bbc drama is studio— bound, let's get out there in the street with the guys that shoot documentaries and make, you know... make it real, in that sort of spontaneous and alive way. but just thinking about some of your films and the way that you have explored social issues, whether that's unemployment in meantime, or back street abortion in vera drake, or class and race in secrets and lies, do you regard yourself as a political filmâ...

Jeremy Deller's film The Battle Of Orgreave 2001 staged a re-enactment of the 1984 clash between mineworkers and police in Orgreave.