The terrible BBC is banned from TV by the UK government

In a radio and television speech in 1963 to the American people on the nuclear test ban, President John F. criticized. Kennedy was the way in which the appearance of nuclear weapons was made “all humanity was struggling to escape from the possibility of destroying inclusiveness on Earth.” Reality could be more bleak. Instead of struggle to escape from it, by this stage, mankind is already used to pretending to the threat waving the horizon of complete and absolute extermination was not there.

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Since World War II, the British have learned in particular to live with the fact that at any moment, it can strike the disaster. Nan used to tell me about riding her bike to school in the eastern hills in East Sussex, only for combat aircraft to photograph the nearby land. She tries a duck and a fast cover under the bush at a later time, jumped again on her bike and collected her way to morning lessons. In the years after this, this strange and worrying overlap between the presence of middle English and permanent disasters has become more intense, with the arrival of the thermal nuclear state and what was known as the identification of mutual destruction.

Of course, no one can live day after day continuously from the fact that at any moment, they can be evaded at any moment. Therefore, people went on their deeds. In Britain, this can be seen in An annoying TV movie in the 1980s, “Topics”, “ The first half of them is a drama of the kitchen sink, depicted with the honesty of the daily life of Chevild. However, in the last half, the BBC is transmitted to one of the most horrific images of the nuclear attack and the repercussions that followed it at all. This contradiction between the realistic wet of British life and Hellscape the nightmare that was clarified in the second half, defeated an entire nation from its bachelors perception of the nuclear threat. The mutual guaranteed destruction, certainly, by the eighties, has become a natural part of life like in the afternoon tea. With “Topics”, the writer Barry Heinz wanted viewers to the viewers of any kind of catastrophe they faced, and since it has succeeded since it became the history of the air known as “the night in which the country did not sleep.”

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Nearly two decades ago, another BBC movie tried a similar achievement, just to be withdrawn from the public broadcasting in a controversial move that includes the British government.

In 1966, the British Broadcasting Corporation was assigned to photograph a nuclear attack on Britain. The “War Game” was written, directed and directed by Peter Watkens and used a natural style that was remarkably effective in photographing what the actual nuclear bombing of ordinary British and their country. Starting with the escalating tensions between the United States and its allies in NATO and China, the film depicts the Russians who fly a single warhead of Megaton exploding near Kent. The film then, in a living detail, displays the suffering of the affected.

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While a family is preparing for the initial explosion, it announces the audio comment, “This can be the way the last minutes of peace in Britain appear.” Then we see the family wandering the initial heat wave where the broadcaster describes the dark scene. “In this distance,” he says, “The heat wave is sufficient to cause the inverted eyeball (and) of the third degree of burning the skin.” Things only become more horrific than there, as we see chimneys of bodies that are driven in the destroyed streets. The shooting teams are carried out by convicted men when the closeness reveals the horrific injuries that the masses suffer from. In the last scene, children with shocked what they want to be when they grow up, just to stay silent or respond as “they don’t want to be anything.”

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As you can imagine, the BBC was not taken in the mid -sixties of the last century with the watchers. This was in the same year that ITV started broadcasting The pure joy of the “Batman” series of Adam West The Beatles team was lived on the air on the “Fixed organic pollutants” for the British Broadcasting Corporation for the first time. As such, a vibration of nuclear repercussions was not exactly in the schedule. In fact, the BBC’s decision to withdraw the “war game”, according to the broadcaster himself, was driven by the tremendous horror of the thing. parliamentary text The company’s statement is thus recorded:

“This is the BBC’s private decision. It has been taken after a great deal of thinking and discussion, but not the result of external pressure of any kind (…) The effect of the film was judged by the BBC to be very terrible for the broadcast mediator. However, it will be shown to the invited audience, including the people who helped make it.”

In the following years, it became clear that there was already great external pressure to withdraw the “war game” from broadcasting.

Between April 13 and May 3, 1966, “The War Game” was shown at the National Theater in London before the first time appeared in a handful of festivals. She even won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film the following year. But it was not shown on TV until July 31, 1985 – after nearly two decades of making … for the TV. The apparent cause of such a delay was that the BBC was considered Dockudrama Peter Watskins simply very annoying for public masses. But it seems that there is more.

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A 2016 study was published in the British Journal of Cinema and Television (via Edinburgh University PressThe in -depth investigation describes the initial ban of the film. The author John R. The theory says that the authorities are afraid to stimulate the Dukodrama Watskins a kind of panic among the masses, and Cook tries to prove a lot by looking at the papers of the former cabinet office, eventually, eventually, “TV censorship on” the director “of the” director “and”. Conservatives. ”In this way, Cook claims that the“ war game ”for the first time is controversial (or non -Depot)“ raises disturbing questions about the BBC liberal borders announced in the 1960s and the true range of its outstanding independence a lot from the government. ”However, it should be noted that the BBC confirmed that although government officials offered the film, their comments have nothing to do with the announcer’s decision to withdraw the war game.

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Like a lot “The threads”, the horrific nightmare that shook Britain to its essence in the 1980sThe “war game” showed an unprecedented shortage of self -control in its depiction of the nuclear war. But this was the point. Watkins He claims that they are interested in “help (G) breaks the silence in the media on the nuclear armament race.” Nevertheless, the “war game” was an attempt to remind people of what the nuclear war means. Thinking about a black world was a thermal nuclear catastrophe in the back of the collective awareness of the entire generation, to the extent that it immediately was a terrifying possibility in an unimaginable and almost cliché, surrounded by a lot of actual meaning simply because of the fact that it had been waving on the horizon for a long time. It is possible that the “war game” would have returned to reality in reality in a way that the BBC and the UK government felt that it leads to counterproductive results.

For Watskins, the just showing the movie to senior government members is already a violation of the BBC independence charter, and this does not mean anything about withdrawing the program from the table. Others, like Dr. Alban Web from the University of Sussex (across BBCHe argues that BBC “saw herself as a shower of the interests of the nation, which in this case ruled that she does not mean panic to the audience about despair from our stay in a nuclear war.” If being the secretary of the best interests in the nation means consulting the government about anything that might cause discomfort, then you ask why the broadcaster has made a lot of “independence” in the first place.

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