A Question of Leadership

A Question of Leadership

1981
53m
3.0

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Documentary
Overview

Shortly after Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister, Ken Loach returned to documentary, convinced that the long gestation of feature films made them useless as instruments of topical social comment. But his trade union documentary A Question of Leadership, intended for national ITV broadcast, was criticised by the Independent Broadcasting Authority for its explicitly anti-government stance. It was eventually screened a year later, exclusively in the Midlands (tx. 13/8/1981). Believing that the then-new Channel 4 would be more amenable to politicised documentaries, Loach proposed the four-part Questions of Leadership (1983), a wider-ranging study of the trade union movement - but on viewing the completed programmes' strong criticism of leading trade unionists, an anxious Channel 4 shortened the series to two parts and proposed screening a 'balancing' documentary by a different filmmaker, before scrapping the broadcast altogether.

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Production Information

Production Companies
Associated Television
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
English

Quick Facts

Release Date August 13, 1981
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0388358

Cast

Key Crew

Ken Loach
Producer
Ken Loach
Director

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