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Paula Milne on writing White Heat
The author of the major new BBC Two drama explains how she revisited the past to make sense of the present
by Paula Milne|Wednesday, 07 March 2012

The political beating heart of the piece is Jack (Sam Claflin, pictured right), who undergoes the most fundamental change of all of the characters. His struggle is to find a legitimate cause. In one episode he says to his father (Jeremy Northam), a Conservative peer, “Maybe the problem was there were no causes to fight for any more. Your lot did all that for us.” When Mrs Thatcher walks into Downing Street the father says to him, “Just remember it was your lot that put them there.” Jack is, if you like, the prism through which we can see the political imperatives of the past which we are still living through today.