Synopsis:
When he died suddenly late last year, many acknowledged Phillip Whitehead's huge contribution to British journalism, including Jeremy Isaacs: "What made him the most gifted television journalist of his generation was a passionate concern for political processes - he believed in democracy - and personal qualities of intellectual honesty, understanding, humour." Whitehead began and ended his career working as a television producer on many of the UK's most prestigious current affairs programmes, whilst also serving as a Labour MP and MEP. In this 1985 film, made as part of a Brook Lapping Productions series, Whitehead examines the events leading up to the surprise fall of Edward Heath in 1974, with interviews with those, including Heath, who found themselves at the centre of a bitter struggle between trade unions and government.
Synopsis:
When he died suddenly late last year, many acknowledged Phillip Whitehead's huge contribution to British journalism, including Jeremy Isaacs: "What made him the most gifted television journalist of his generation was a passionate concern for political processes - he believed in democracy - and personal qualities of intellectual honesty, understanding, humour." Whitehead began and ended his career working as a television producer on many of the UK's most prestigious current affairs programmes, whilst also serving as a Labour MP and MEP. In this 1985 film, made as part of a Brook Lapping Productions series, Whitehead examines the events leading up to the surprise fall of Edward Heath in 1974, with interviews with those, including Heath, who found themselves at the centre of a bitter struggle between trade unions and government.