The first of four films that look at those parts of officialdom other series seldom reach. It throws light on those who too often turn harmless information into confidential documents.
In Keeping Secrets, Ed Boyle listens to tenants unbottle their suspicions about the gas explosion, the cause of which is being kept hidden. He hears a local councillor Protest at laws changed behind her back, and a historian laugh at 60-year-old Christmas cards still enveloped in the Official Secrets Act. Has the British liking for privacy become an addiction to secrecy?
And why do some people . think it's damaging to our health? .
Film editor MICHAEL CASEY
Series producer HUGH PURCELL Producer SUE BOURNE *