If the first episode of Crime Story was highly dramatised. Wallpaper Warrior very much keeps towards the truth.
It looks like what took place in the story happened in real life. The sad fact is very little is shown about the victim, DC Jim Porter who was gunned down in Bishop Auckland.
The story is about Eddie Horner, a young not too bright man. Dismissed from his job at a wallpaper factory after it introduced a new bonus scheme which resulted in a pay cut. He was one of fourteen men who went out on strike and were sacked.
Horner had befriended Paul Standen, another unhinged young man who came in as a flying picket. Both talked about revolution and creating a Worker's Party.
Standen fed Horner some tall stories and seemed to have radicalised Horner. It led to both of them going on a crime spree with a third man as a getaway driver.
Featuring a most unlikely lookalike of Michael Foot played by Jack Watling (whose son Giles Watling went on to become a Tory MP.) This was a slice of early 1980s industrial strife.
A febrile ground for extreme left wingers who seem to provide no real answer to the industrial decline. Actually they still can't provide one even 40 years after the events took place.
It really is a matter of fact drama of some not very bright loners. Horner thought himself as a political prisoner who thought come the revolution. He will be freed from his life sentence.
The effect on the dead policeman's colleagues and families is absent.
It looks like what took place in the story happened in real life. The sad fact is very little is shown about the victim, DC Jim Porter who was gunned down in Bishop Auckland.
The story is about Eddie Horner, a young not too bright man. Dismissed from his job at a wallpaper factory after it introduced a new bonus scheme which resulted in a pay cut. He was one of fourteen men who went out on strike and were sacked.
Horner had befriended Paul Standen, another unhinged young man who came in as a flying picket. Both talked about revolution and creating a Worker's Party.
Standen fed Horner some tall stories and seemed to have radicalised Horner. It led to both of them going on a crime spree with a third man as a getaway driver.
Featuring a most unlikely lookalike of Michael Foot played by Jack Watling (whose son Giles Watling went on to become a Tory MP.) This was a slice of early 1980s industrial strife.
A febrile ground for extreme left wingers who seem to provide no real answer to the industrial decline. Actually they still can't provide one even 40 years after the events took place.
It really is a matter of fact drama of some not very bright loners. Horner thought himself as a political prisoner who thought come the revolution. He will be freed from his life sentence.
The effect on the dead policeman's colleagues and families is absent.