Lockerbie to Mr Bates: The rise of the Great British docudrama
In the late 1980s, World in Action, Granada’s flagship current affairs show, faced a problem. Producer Ian McBride and investigative journalist Chris Mullin had made several documentaries suggesting a miscarriage of justice in the case of six Northern Irish men jailed in 1975 after being convicted for IRA-claimed bombings of two Birmingham pubs the previous year.