BBC considers ID card apocalypse drama

WRITTEN ON January 31st, 2007 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art

Sounds as if the BBC has some more pertinent art lined up in the form of a show called The Last Enemy, says the Independent’s gossip column (which nicked its name from my friend Pandora, a former occasional columnist) …

“It’s meant to be an apocalyptic drama,” I’m told. “It’s aiming to paint a pretty depressing picture of the country if ID cards get the nod. I think the idea is that it will be quite Orwellian.”..

5 Responses to “BBC considers ID card apocalypse drama”

Loz wrote on January 31st, 2007 4:05 pm :

Maybe they could consider a drama about framing the Home Secretary with DNA evidence.

Chris wrote on January 31st, 2007 4:29 pm :

@Loz:

Reminds me of the bit in “The trial of Tony Blair” where he has to give a DNA sample.

“Do I have to?”
“I’m afraid so”
“Since when?”
“Since you introduced it”

Ideal Gov administrator wrote on January 31st, 2007 4:30 pm :

You saw the PM being required to give his DNA in the Trial of Tony Blair? (tho the fictional trial was about the illegal Iraq war, and currently the bookies must be putting perverting the course of justice as more likely)

Ideal Gov administrator wrote on January 31st, 2007 4:32 pm :

There must be a youtube clip of that short classic scene…

Richard S wrote on February 1st, 2007 12:25 am :

For those who have yet to see “The Trial of Tony Blair,” it’s not about boring court-room scenes from “the trial”; it’s about the run-up, the personalities, and the effect on them.

Had it been just the court-room or the debates, I wouldn’t have watched it: I thought it very well done.

As with the classic Bremner, Bird & Fortune “Between Iraq & a Hard Place”; and the recent one about Afghanistan; “The Trial of Tony Blair” was far better constructed and more thought-provoking than most “broadsheet” editorials.