anyone remember the docudrama thread . it a drama documentary which shock britain in september 1984 . whilst not exactly wholly entertain by mick jackson nuclear holocaust horror film i could respect it . unfortunately i can not respect this docudrama broadcast 20 year later which deal with terrorist let off a radioactive dirty bomb in the centre of london the problem i have with it be that director daniel percival production value be far too good when in fact this would have benefit from rather cheap production value . the cinematography be superb but in this type of speculative drama do we need superb and well lit oscar standard cinematography . what we certainly do not need be a musical score a the survivor of the blast slowly stagger out of the smoke . neither do we need vaguely well know cast member . do anyone else sit there ask themselves hey what be he in . i know that face several time . i know i do and it very distract . perhaps the big production flaw with dirty war be that someone decide to make it a docudrama with too much stylistic emphasis on the drama . in thread the action cut away from the action in sheffield umpteen time and become an edition of horizon on the effect of nuclear war before cut back to the fictional protagonist again and thread be very effective because of this . here the information present suffocate the drama which drown in expositional and totally unconvincing dialogue . the character in the teleplay aren not really character theyre just cypher there to inform the audience what happen when radioactive material be explode . it would have be good for the action to cut to caption to convey this type of information ala thread . the bad thing be that director daniel percival use the same technique a see in thread a couple of year ago with his docudrama about smallpox . he should have use the same style with dirty wari should also lay my card on the table and state that while i do not consider most muslim be terrorist i be get slightly feed up of tv production like the hamburg cell and the grid and dirty war have to point out this fact to me by whalloping me over the head with it which be somewhat typical of patronise pc attitude in tv company nowadaysi manage to miss the studio debate that bob mention here but i have also hear it discuss elsewhere and i can not help think it make well view than dirty war itself with it heated argument between differ faction of the political spectrum . if dirty war be remember twenty year from now ( highly unlikely i know ) it may well be remember for the discussion it cause more than anything .