Personally, I think the program was a hatchet job on MacColl, damning the man with faint praise, with Martin having his tongue firmly stuck in his cheek."
Absolutely, like everything that appears in the media , the programme was edited or censored[ same thing], 30 minutes of material was used out of a much larger availablity of material, only certain members of the critics group gave their opinions, we did not hear from Donal Maguire, John Faulkner, Terry Yarnell or any of the other members.
the programme was unbalanced and it has had its desired effect even affecting people like Brian Peters.
what is needed is another programme of 30 minutes, perhaps even interviewing Jim Carroll, to get another perspective .
The BBC likes to give the impression it is even handed, ha ha.
unfortunately all media programme makers have a remit to make a contoversial programme, to get people to listen, it is the same with newspapers we always hear about the sensational aspects of life, we never hear about the millions of people who are decent kind and respectful to each other.