Tavia wrote:
I've been trying to think of other broadly sympathetic portrayals of
terrorists
in UK media, and perhaps I'm missing something really obvious, but the earliest thing I can come up with is Neil Jordan's 'The Crying Game' of 1992.
That was the first thing I could come up with too, then 'In the Name of the Father' in 1993, and 'Michael Collins' in 1996, which certainly blew apart the preconceptions of many of my friends. Still, I'm not sure I can think of anything on TV till the recent 'Rebel Heart'. The BBC did a TV series 'Parnell and the Englishwoman' in 1991 (?) but that's hardly about terrorism. And there was that drama about the famine with all the McGanns a couple of years ago.
I found a web resource which has a database of TV programmes about the Troubles transmitted from 1969 to 1996, if anyone's cares terribly: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/media/tvprogs.htm
Una