The BBC's new 'conspiracy thriller' TheTrick is set to hit screens next week:
will tell the story of Professor Philip Jones, the Director of Climate Research at the University of East Anglia, one of the prime targets at the heart of, which saw more than a thousand emails and computer files hacked, stolen and used by climate change deniers to argue that global warming was a scientific conspiracy and that scientists had been manipulating or hiding data.
As one of the principal targets of the hack, Jones found himself at the eye of an “international media storm” that led to an influx of online hate and threats.
“The film also charts the unjustified persecution of Phil Jones, his wife Ruth’s support of her husband and the fight for the ultimate exoneration of himself and the science.”Jerome Flynn as Neil Wallis, a former News of the World executive editor and managing director of Outside Organisation – the PR company who led UEA’s reputation management – and George MacKay as Sam Bowen, Outside Organisation’s Director of Corporate.
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