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Edge of Darkness
One of the most ambitious and popular BBC drama series ever, Edge of Darkness received six BAFTA awards after it was first broadcast in 1985, and writer Troy Kennedy Martin's achievement in creating a "green" vision of things to come makes this an important text for the 1990s.
Ron Craven, a Yorkshire policeman, makes a private investigation into the circumstances of his daughter's mysterious death, and is drawn into an international nuclear network, whose deadly secret he feels compelled to expose in the interests of the human race.
This book contains all six episodes, with a detailed and challenging introduction by the author on the factual background to the series.
Ron Craven, a Yorkshire policeman, makes a private investigation into the circumstances of his daughter's mysterious death, and is drawn into an international nuclear network, whose deadly secret he feels compelled to expose in the interests of the human race.
This book contains all six episodes, with a detailed and challenging introduction by the author on the factual background to the series.
- GenresThriller
203 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1990
About the author
Troy Kennedy Martin
10 books8 followersTroy Kennedy Martin was an Anglo-Scottish film and television screenwriter.
He was educated in Scotland, at Finchley Catholic Grammar School (now known as Finchley Catholic High School) and Trinity College, Dublin, where he took a degree in history and political science. He travelled extensively and in 1953 took part in an abortive crossing of the Atlantic in a small boat.
In the spring of 1955 he attended a Salzburg seminar in American studies and immediately afterwards joinded the British Army. He obtained a short service commission with the Gordon Highlanders and and served part of this in Cyprus during the Suez crisis in 1956. On demobilisation he began to write; Beat on a Damask Drum was his first work. In 1958 he joined the BBC. His first television play was Incident at Echo Six. He is sometimes credited as Troy Kennedy-Martin, and is the brother of Ian Kennedy Martin.
His best known work in the cinema is the screenplay for the original version of The Italian Job, and in television he was responsible for co-creating the long-running BBC police series Z-Cars and writing the highly-regarded 1985 drama serial Edge of Darkness.
He was educated in Scotland, at Finchley Catholic Grammar School (now known as Finchley Catholic High School) and Trinity College, Dublin, where he took a degree in history and political science. He travelled extensively and in 1953 took part in an abortive crossing of the Atlantic in a small boat.
In the spring of 1955 he attended a Salzburg seminar in American studies and immediately afterwards joinded the British Army. He obtained a short service commission with the Gordon Highlanders and and served part of this in Cyprus during the Suez crisis in 1956. On demobilisation he began to write; Beat on a Damask Drum was his first work. In 1958 he joined the BBC. His first television play was Incident at Echo Six. He is sometimes credited as Troy Kennedy-Martin, and is the brother of Ian Kennedy Martin.
His best known work in the cinema is the screenplay for the original version of The Italian Job, and in television he was responsible for co-creating the long-running BBC police series Z-Cars and writing the highly-regarded 1985 drama serial Edge of Darkness.
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December 19, 2008
Very simply the greatest TV series of the 1980s!!! What I learned from this script is how to negotiate mythic image and theme with a realist setting. Also the best story about state repression under Thatcher ever
March 24, 2018
Pendleton's final speech still as powerful. And the story is more relevant now than the events it describes, 30 years ago. The edition contains interesting appendices, and Martin's footnotes throughout are useful.
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