The article published on the website of the newspaper "The Guardian" on April 28, 2013 is headlined "Up the Junction's Tony Garnett reveals mother's backstreet abortion death" by Jason Deans and Maggie Brown. The article reports at Producer who edited Ken Loach's 1965 TV drama about illegal abortion reveals own mother died two days after operation.
Speaking of this situation it is necessary to note that the story editor of Up the Junction, the groundbreaking 1960s BBC drama dealing with backstreet abortion, has talked publicly for the first time of the personal tragedy that motivated him to get this and other politically challenging work on screen.
It’s important to note that Tony Garnett, 77, the veteran TV and film producer with credits ranging from Kes and Cathy Come Home to This Life, revealed to the Guardian that his mother died of septicaemia, two days after a backstreet abortion during the German bombing of British cities in the second world war.
It is necessary to point out that Garnett, then a child of five, was in bed with his mother the night she died. His father, who worked as a munitions worker, committed suicide less than a month later.
It is important to emphasize that he said in a MediaGuardian interview that there was he and his little brother and their parents thought another baby in those circumstances too much. A day or two later she died of galloping septicaemia, and 19 days after that his father, who couldn't bear it, committed suicide.
The authors write that nearly 25 years later he produced Up the Junction, a BBC Wednesday Play directed by Ken Loach that prompted a then record 400 complaints for its unvarnished portrayal of the lives of three young working-class women in south London, including bad language, sexual promiscuity – and abortion.
It is interesting to note that the drama featured documentary elements including an interview with a doctor talking about the need to change the law on abortion, over shots of one of the actors visiting an abortionist.
It is necessary to emphasize that Garnett described Up the Junction as very, very personal. Somebody very close to him died from an abortion, he never ever talked about this to anyone.
The article draws a conclusion that he was speaking to the Guardian ahead of the first comprehensive retrospective of his more than 50-year body of TV and drama work at the BFI in London, Tony Garnett: Seeing Red, in May and June.
As for me, I would like to add that as the BFI celebrates his 50 years' work, the man behind Cathy Come Home reveals the tragedy that changed his world.
VERY GOOD!
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