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    Poliakoff attacks 'Kafkaesque' BBC
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    He added that writers and producers were being given "strange lectures about how to make factually based drama" that were "completely unnecessary". "The Safeguarding Trust policy that was instigated to help to restore the BBC's reputation has resulted in writers and producers having to receive strange lectures about how to make factually based drama" said Poliakoff, interviewed in the latest issue of the Radio Times, published today. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
    The Safeguarding Trust policy that was instigated to help to restore the BBC's reputation has resulted in writers and producers having to receive strange lectures about how to make factually based drama
    – Stephen Poliakoff SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
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Poliakoff attacks 'Kafkaesque' BBC
  1. Now the world has gone to the ludicrous opposite extreme, where the BBC is concerned they may be accused of deceiving the audience if liberties with history are taken. There is no such thing as a single, correct version of history, and if dramatists are honestly trying to achieve a deeper poetic truth a...
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago
  2. The murderous conspiracy at the centre of the story is fictitious, but in a wider sense the film is true. We came so close to becoming a puppet state of the Nazis even before the war had started. Fortunately, because the film is for the cinema, I didn't have to face the Safeguarding Trust brigade.
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 3 weeks ago

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