Radical TV director known for Leeds - United!, a 1974 Play for Today, and his later work on Between the Lines and Cracker The director Roy Battersby, who has died aged 87 after a stroke, was one of the leftwing radicals who joined the BBC in the 1960s and sought to bring stories of working-class struggle to the television screen. But his overt political activism with the Workers' Revolutionary party led to his being blacklisted by the BBC, a result of secret vetting carried out on the corporatio...
Radical TV director known for Leeds - United!, a 1974 Play for Today, and his later work on Between the Lines and Cracker The director Roy Battersby, who has died aged 87 after a stroke, was one of the leftwing radicals who joined the BBC in the 1960s and sought to bring stories of working-class struggle to the television screen. But his overt political activism with the Workers' Revolutionary party led to his being blacklisted by the BBC, a result of secret vetting carried out on the corporatio...
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