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Potter and Bragg, two stars.

Prophetic

Rupert Murdoch is perhaps one of the most vile, evil, miserable human beings to ever walk this planet. For some unknown reason that absolutely defies common sense, we allow him to spread his divisive hate and horrid misery all across the globe. He is solely responsible for the near collapse of our Democracy. Why we possibly allow him and his ilk to continue is complete and utter madness.

Sadly there a no new Potters...just Netflix..

I think that's why we don't get a Jonathan Meades any more - people like Jane Root killed individuality in broadcasting for favour of a "yoof" - their terms - audience.

Jeremy Vine and Vanessa Feltz seemed to have missed this message from their better.

Cannot stand Rupert Murdoch and that sidekick cunt of his - Rebekah Brooks. She should have gone to prison but escaped justice.

Wise words

Remember watching this ,yes Mr Potter how right you were

Dennis' analysis is even more pertinent now than it ever was.

I no longer posses a TV and I do not read newspapers. Instead I troll through youtube for stuff like this. I cannot watch anything made after about 2000. It is all empty formulae, propaganda and programming. By programming I mean as in a computer, not as in the radio times (if it is still called that). Stumbling across some of Dennis Potter's earlier stuff is a rare blessing.

No wonder rugby league has gone from the greatest game to shite

Tell his horse faced wife to join him.

Oh Dennis, Dennis, those Pennies from Heaven...

I play this every few months as a reminder that a just and fair God would have given Rupert the terminal cancers and Dennis another 25 years in the sunshine.

And the crusty old puppeteer is still at it, I wish Rupe had his wings clipped back then.

I saw this so many years ago on free to air broadcast. Sky News & others so shamelessly partisan & biased & a large enough proportion of the population cannot or will not see it as such, perception of personal realities is all that matters giving rise to polarisation, the rise of Trump, who can be surprised? There are glimmers of hope in people like Jacinda Ardern, PM of New Zealand.What would he be saying now?

I came back to this interview in general, and this moment in particular because of reading an article about how FOX EWES is in fact to a great extent dictating Trump's policies and decisions on the nations response to the Corona virus. Murdoch has largely been dictating policy in the US since Trump was elected late in 2016. I wish Dennis had been able to fulfill his wish.. but someone else would have just stepped into the breach.

The Murdoch Cancer is now a global pandemic. There will be parties and champagne bottles popping all over the planet the day he takes his terminal breath. And the world will be a slightly better place.

Murdoch should go down in history as one of the biggest mass murderers of all time. Not just with regard to the freedom of speech, but also as a faciltator of wars and the subsequent genocides.

Still all too relevant today! Murdoch's legacy is appalling manipulation and contamination of free press and the role it plays in informing citizenry.

Had this on vhs. Great to see it here. He was bang on about everything he had to say! Yes, Murdoch IS a cancer that KILLS!

HandwrittenTheatre, this was a rather loving tribute. Really nice work. It's appreciated.

If I get cancer I will take some solace in following Potter's example. I, too, will possess a 'Rupert'; although in fairness to all the good Ruperts, I'll call it Rupertdespicablebastard.

Was he right? Or was he right?

BBC should have guaranteed a free voice and impartiality. When this great man spoke, it was. Not now. The BBC. I left England. I stopped buying Murdoch and I stopped paying the BBC licence fee. I am happier as a result.

In July 1994, one month after Potter's death, Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party. In 2010 Blair became godfather to one of Murdoch's daughters. Tells you all you need to know about the corruption at the heart of British politics.

It is so sad that Rupert, this kindly octogenarian philanthropist has been so misunderstood. The film he made with me on my youtube site shows his irrepressible love for the world expressed in his own personal style. Dr Dub

Arguably the greatest playwright who has ever lived, and yes I include Shakespeare in that. In 200 years time they will be studying Potter in the same way they study Shakespeare now.

Fascinating, it was the beginning of the end of innocence; of being surprised without being manipulated into it. Literally a game being played above our heads and in front of our eyes. We should cherish the free-thinkers and the eccentrics.

My God this fabulous man saw the whole thing coming twenty years ago. Listening to him gives you hope and of course a little despair, despair knowing that society is passively backing up that awful Rupert Murdoch. Pity he never realised his wish regarding Murdoch.

He should have got a gun

I remember watching the interview at the time of broadcast and thinking it was an important commentary on the then current and future state of broadcasting. When I bought the DVD's of The Singing Detective, I was irked that the BBC had chosen to 'excerpt' parts of the interview but didn't have the courage to include all of it. Too contentious you see...

i love this man

@littleblackpistol Hear, hear. Where are our day's Dennis Potters?

@HandwrittenTheatre where can I find the whole thing? I had the VHS but it got nicked. Thanks

@HandwrittenTheatre Its been removed again for copyright infringement. Whats going on? This will be the second time its been removed. We'll have to start over again.

This man spoke sense before The Guardian lost the plot, and the BBC.

When Murdoch and his equally vile son. Where questioned by the mp's commitee If I may para-quote Indiana Jones in the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.. "Somewhere out there he, (Dennis) is looking down and laughing at this. : )

2 dislikes...I never thought Rupert and Wendi had time for CZcams with all the shit they're in now

the truth, well put, Murdoch is indeed, a cancerous blight.

A great pity Dennis Potter didn't survive to share our schadenfreude. Did you all get to see Karaoke & Frozen Lazarus? They way his final two works dovetailed his final interview was absolutely brilliant. As for Singing Detective I think it should be compulsory viewing for all health workers.

Pure visionary, esp. on the matter of Murdoch.

I remember this interview, but my memory let me down I thought the interviewer was Michael Parkinson, Dennis Potter made me sit up and take note of Murdoch, I have waited for his demise ever since.

I remember this well. When (and it looks like being soon now) Rupert Murdoch finally explodes in a ball of pus and slime, leaving behind nothing but a nasty stain and a bad smell, Dennis will be looking down from heaven and saying...... "GOTCHA!!!"

How very prescient Potter's musings on the Digger have now become.And how sad he did not live long enough to see the much overdue collapse of NI.DP genuinely loved and apprieciated television and regarded it as a medium that was artistic,intelligent,entertaining and sophisticated if people wanted it to be,and as it often was particularly in the 60's and 70's.Thanks to free market deregualtion,it scarcely is now in the X-Factor/Big Brother culture,but this NI backlash may herald a new start.

This man has the most soothing voice I've ever heard

@CarajilloDulce Thats because those people are easily led and in certain cases not very intelligent.

@CarajilloDulce really do you have sky? do you enjoy endless cookery shows, qvc, and bent game shows, poker tournaments and idiots from dawn to dusk? thats a monopoly there is no alternative used to be a tv channel or tv show show needed an audience...... not any more!