This film about the Brighton Bomber - and his victims - is another unmissable documentary from the makers of Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
October 8, 2024 9:00 pm will have been equally impressed by the production team’s latest film,. The focus obviously had to be tighter in this one-off 40th-anniversary documentary about the October 1984 IRA attack on Brighton’s Grand Hotel where the prime ministerand her cabinet were staying during the Conservative Party conference. Nevertheless, the bombing was carefully put in context of the wider Troubles.
Margaret Thatcher, her husband Denis and her personal assistant Cynthia Crawford leave the Grand Hotel in Brighton after the attack put the events of the attack into the historical context of the republican hatred of Thatcher following her intransigence over the prison hunger strikes, in which Republican inmates starved themselves in their effort to be considered political prisoners.
The Berry children had also been glued to their TV screens as news of the bombing was reported – but in acute anxiety rather than jubilation. Thatcher having declared that the conference would go ahead despite the devastation, they hoped in vain to spot their father during the TV coverage. Four others were killed in the blast: Tory official Eric Taylor; Jeanne Shattock, the wife of another official, Gordon Shattock; Roberta Wakeham, the wife of chief whip John Wakeham; and Muriel Maclean, wife of Sir Donald Maclean, the president of the Scottish Conservatives.
If the documentary had finished there, it would still have been an important, skillfully made piece of oral history. But there was a twist that elevated it into something more than a disinterment long-ago events. For, after his release, Jo Berry approached Magee for a meeting, the bomber initially intent on justifying his actions.
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