Black Sheep of Whitehall, The

Synopsis

On 23rd March, 1984, a young British civil servant was sentenced to six months in prison for disclosing secrets to a daily newspaper. She maintained that revealing the documents, which dealt with the arrival of cruise missiles in the United Kingdom, was in the public interest. Includes interviews with the civil servant, Sarah Tisdall, and other men and women who have risked gaol or job loss for revealing information to the media.

Series

World in Action, Series

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 27 min.

Year of production

1984

Availability

sale

Uses

2nd and 3rd year undergraduate courses in British politics.*

Subjects

Politics & government

Keywords

Civil Service; freedom of information

Production Company

Name

Granada Television

Web

http://www.granadamedia.com External site opens in new window

Phone

020 7734 8080

Fax

020 7494 6280

Address

Non-Theatric Sales
36 Golden Square
London
W1R 4AH

Distributor

Name

Concord Media

Email

sales@concordmedia.org.uk

Web

http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window

Phone

01473 726 012

Address

Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG

Notes

A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.