LIVING ON THE EDGE 1987

Award-winning cinema/TV documentary film about the post-War dreams of British working people and their sense of betrayal in the Thatcher era, mixing newsreels, old films, advertisements, pop music and radio archives with present day actuality.

Thanks to director Mike Grigsby's status as a leading UK documentary filmmaker he and I were given carte blanche by Central TV to make a ‘state of the nation’ documentary about Thatcher’s Britain during its late 1980’s ‘boom’, and its little-seen dark side.

In a then unique initiative for a network documentary, and with the help of the British Film Institute, a 35 mm ‘blow-up’ of Living On The Edge was theatrically distributed on the art-house circuit. It later received its network broadcast on November 7th 1987.