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£1,500. The New Statesman.

British television is in crisis.

Once one of the country's biggest exports, the industry is now crumbling.

Long-time producers and directors have left to find work elsewhere. While the BBC itself, our national broadcaster seems to be

perennially lurching from one disaster to the next. So what is really going on and what can and

should be done to address the ever-growing problem? I'm Hannah Barnes, and this is the New Statesman

Podcast. I'm Hannah Barnes and this is the New Statesman podcast.

To discuss all of this, I'm joined by renowned British director Peter Kisminski.

I mean, Peter, you've made some of the most highly regarded dramas and documentaries on British television over the last four decades. Most recently,

people were probably aware of your adaptation of Hilary Mantell's trilogy, ending with Mirror and the Light, which obviously followed your masterpiece adaptation of the earlier novels,

Wolf Hall. In terms of drama, too many to list, but you're responsible for the government inspector,

which told the story of Dr David Kelly in search for the chemical weapons in Iraq,

Warriors, which covered British peacekeepers in Bosnia in the 1990s,

and also Brits, which looked at what it was like to be young and Muslim in post-7-7 Britain.

And it strikes me that whilst those projects are all very different,

they have something in common, which is maybe they're incredibly ambitious and brave. Is that

what you're always trying to do as a television maker? Absolutely not. Brave or possibly

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