:00:05. > :00:09.Tonight at Ten, more pressure on the private clinics responsible for
:00:09. > :00:16.thousands of breast implants. The providers are told they have a duty
:00:16. > :00:22.to replace defective PIP implants, but they say it's not their fault.
:00:22. > :00:26.This is a massive problem created by the Government's agency and they
:00:26. > :00:28.must accept moral responsibility. They must do something for patients.
:00:28. > :00:34.Thousands of women are affected and they're warning the private
:00:34. > :00:40.companies they won't give up. are going to lose a lot of money
:00:40. > :00:42.over this, but rightly so, they've made a lot of money over it, so
:00:42. > :00:45.they should also lose. We'll be asking where the ultimate
:00:45. > :00:47.responsibility lies - with the clinics or the regulator? Also
:00:47. > :00:51.tonight: EDF, one of Britain's biggest energy suppliers, cuts gas
:00:51. > :00:54.prices by 5%. Others are urged to follow.
:00:54. > :01:00.Westminster versus Holyrood - no sign of agreement on the date and
:01:00. > :01:07.content of a referendum on independence. Scotland is always
:01:07. > :01:10.willing to talk, but we won't be bullied, we won't be intimidated or
:01:10. > :01:13.dictated to by a Tory Prime Minister in London. A series of
:01:13. > :01:18.defeats for the Government in the Lords - on welfare changes for the
:01:18. > :01:27.disabled, and long-term sick. And backing a winner - the new
:01:27. > :01:31.debate on priorities for the Later in Sportsday on the BBC News
:01:31. > :01:41.Channel, all the action from another exciting Carling Cup
:01:41. > :01:53.
:01:53. > :01:56.semifinal. This time between Good evening. One of Britain's
:01:56. > :01:59.leading providers of cosmetic surgery in the private sector is
:01:59. > :02:01.refusing to pay for the replacement of defective breast implants. The
:02:01. > :02:04.Harley Medical Group carried out surgery on nearly 14,000 women,
:02:04. > :02:12.using PIP implants, which are now the focus of safety concerns across
:02:12. > :02:15.Europe. The Government said the company had a moral responsibility
:02:15. > :02:25.to take action. Our medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh,
:02:25. > :02:30.reports. Who is responsible? That's the question at the heart of the
:02:30. > :02:38.PIP scandal affecting around 40,000 British women. For the Government,
:02:38. > :02:42.it is the clinics. But the firm which did more PIP implants than
:02:43. > :02:47.any other says Government regulators should have picked up
:02:47. > :02:50.problems sooner. You are saying the NHS, the Government, has a moral
:02:50. > :02:53.responsibility to these women. Don't you have a moral
:02:53. > :02:57.responsibility? We don't have the resource, we don't have the
:02:57. > :03:02.hospitals, we don't have the GPs, we don't that that facility. We are
:03:02. > :03:07.not geared up for that type of facility. The NHS is geared up for
:03:07. > :03:10.that sort of facility, and, this is a massive problem created by the
:03:10. > :03:16.Government's agency and they must accept moral responsibility and
:03:16. > :03:21.they must do something for patients. The Harley Medical Group's
:03:21. > :03:25.publicity talks of inspiring confidence in patients. Its refusal
:03:25. > :03:33.to replace implants for free is hardly likely to do that. But the
:03:33. > :03:38.company says it would go out of business if it picked up the tab.
:03:38. > :03:42.Gemma Pepper has no sympathy. Her PIP implants were fitted by the
:03:42. > :03:47.Harley Medical Group just days before they were banned. The fact
:03:47. > :03:50.that they are blaming the Government is for me just a way out.
:03:50. > :03:54.They are just trying to find something to grasp on to, because
:03:54. > :03:59.obviously they are going to lose a lot of money over this, rightly so.
:03:59. > :04:06.They've made a lot of money over this so they should also lose.
:04:06. > :04:12.Almost all PIP implants were done privately. 8 clinics said they
:04:12. > :04:15.would remove and replace implants for free. The rest have either
:04:15. > :04:18.refused, not made their position clear or gone out of business. If
:04:18. > :04:22.these live in Wales the NHS will remove and replace their implants.
:04:22. > :04:28.But in theest are eh rest of the UK private patients will be offered
:04:28. > :04:31.removal only under the NHS. Ministers say clin should do it.
:04:31. > :04:35.The professional associations of surgeons have made it clear they
:04:35. > :04:39.are recommending to their members they should assist with this
:04:39. > :04:42.surgery if needed without surgical charge. So to that extent I cannot
:04:42. > :04:46.see why it shouldn't be possible for private providers, including
:04:46. > :04:51.the Harley Medical Group, who were amongst the largest of these
:04:51. > :04:55.providers, to be able to achieve this on behalf of their patients.
:04:55. > :05:00.Dutch health experts today followed French and German officials
:05:00. > :05:05.recommending the removal of PIP implants as a precaution. But
:05:05. > :05:10.Ministers here continue to insist that that isn't needed. Fergus is
:05:10. > :05:15.with me now. You asked the central question: where does the
:05:15. > :05:20.responsibility lie? What can you tell us tonight? Hufrpblgts w, all
:05:20. > :05:27.implants have a -- well, Huw, all implants have a mark which says
:05:27. > :05:31.they are fit for purpose. With PIP that was approved in Germany but
:05:31. > :05:35.the protest post-product surveillance was done by the
:05:35. > :05:39.medical watchdog,. The Harley Medical Group said it used a
:05:39. > :05:43.licensed product and it is not their problem. Ministers will say
:05:43. > :05:47.that's akin to saying when you buy a car and it goes wrong, blame the
:05:47. > :05:51.Government. One thing we are like through see out of this is tighter
:05:51. > :05:54.European regulation on medical devices. But that doesn't help the
:05:54. > :05:59.women with PIP implants. The majority tonight still look like
:05:59. > :06:04.they are not going to be able to get free freedom from clinics. They
:06:04. > :06:10.have to decide do they pay the clinics for new implants, pay the
:06:10. > :06:14.NHS to remove them, or sit tight, bearing in mind the review has yet
:06:14. > :06:16.to find any problems with the unauthorised silicon gel that was
:06:17. > :06:19.used. Thank you.
:06:20. > :06:22.The energy company, EDF, has announced a 5% cut in its gas
:06:23. > :06:25.prices from next month, passing on savings from a fall in wholesale
:06:26. > :06:29.costs. It's the first time they've lowered their prices for almost two
:06:29. > :06:32.years and it follows a big increase last November, when gas bills rose
:06:32. > :06:41.by more than 15%. The move will put pressure on other energy suppliers,
:06:41. > :06:45.as John Moylan reports. Our energy bills have never been higher, but
:06:45. > :06:50.could prices final I will be about to move lower? That's what many
:06:50. > :06:55.industry watchers are predicting, following EDF's decision to cut gas
:06:56. > :07:00.tariffs for around 1.4 million of its customers. Sadly for pensioner
:07:00. > :07:04.David Hood he isn't one of them. He scriched to EDF in the surges
:07:04. > :07:09.moving to a fixed tariff. While he escaped November's rise he is
:07:09. > :07:13.unlikely to benefit from this at all. I just have a feeling that if
:07:13. > :07:18.you are capped you are capped. We are locked into that price until
:07:18. > :07:22.September of this year. I don't think I will get the 5% reduction.
:07:22. > :07:26.The reduction will take effect next month but the 5 % cut only applies
:07:26. > :07:30.to gas. There has been no change on electricity. What's more, it
:07:30. > :07:37.follows a 15% rise in gas tariffs by the company back in November.
:07:37. > :07:41.But the move will save a typical customer around �38 on their annual
:07:42. > :07:45.dual fuel bill. We were the last company to increase prices last
:07:45. > :07:50.year and we are the first to cut- price this is year. For the second
:07:50. > :07:54.year in a row we are the cheapest energy supply across the country.
:07:54. > :07:58.Last winter several companies increased prices. Bills shot up
:07:58. > :08:03.again in the autumn. The main consumer group claims they've risen
:08:03. > :08:08.by around 21% in the last 15 months. Those higher prices have also been
:08:08. > :08:12.a factor which has kept inflation stubbornly high. But the mild
:08:12. > :08:15.winter that we are all experiencing has added to the downward pressure
:08:15. > :08:19.on the whole sail cost of energy. The price that the big companies
:08:20. > :08:25.have to pay for gas and electricity. And that has led to speculation
:08:25. > :08:31.that a round of price cuts could be on the way. The whole sail energy
:08:31. > :08:36.prices have been dropping for about a year. We haven't seen the energy
:08:36. > :08:40.companies respond. They constantly say market fundamentals what
:08:40. > :08:45.determines the cost of our bills. When that cost goes down our energy
:08:45. > :08:48.bills should reflect it. Today the Government backed the call for
:08:48. > :08:51.lower bills and tonight there is speculation that British Gas may be
:08:51. > :08:54.the next to mover. A murder inquiry has been launched
:08:54. > :08:57.after the bodies of a married couple were discovered at a house
:08:57. > :09:00.at Handsworth Wood, in Birmingham. It's believed that Avtar Kolar and
:09:00. > :09:06.his wife, Carole, were assaulted. Their bodies were discovered by one
:09:06. > :09:08.of their sons, who is a serving police officer.
:09:08. > :09:11.An 18 year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder
:09:11. > :09:14.following a fire in Lancashire in which four members of the same
:09:14. > :09:17.family died. Reece Smith, who was 19, his four-year-old twin sisters
:09:17. > :09:21.Holly and Ella, and their two-year- old brother, Jordan, died in the
:09:21. > :09:30.fire, which is thought to have started in a wardrobe in the house
:09:30. > :09:33.in Freckleton. The teenager being held is not a member of the family.
:09:33. > :09:36.Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland, says he is willing to
:09:36. > :09:39.discuss the details and timing of a referendum on independence with the
:09:39. > :09:43.British Government, but says he won't be bullied. He says he still
:09:43. > :09:46.favours the autumn of 2014 for the vote. He spoke as David Cameron and
:09:46. > :09:50.Ed Miliband joined forces to make the case for maintaining the union
:09:50. > :10:00.and for an earlier referendum date. Our Scotland correspondent, Lorna
:10:00. > :10:01.
:10:01. > :10:05.Gordon, reports. Tying the knot, the McAvoys from Middlesbrough.
:10:05. > :10:09.They crossed into Scotland to get married in Gretna, famous for its
:10:09. > :10:13.weddings and its border location. It's a happy union for this couple,
:10:13. > :10:18.but what they and their guests make of that other union, between the
:10:18. > :10:21.countries of Scotland and England? Scotland is Scotland and England is
:10:21. > :10:28.England. If Scotland wanted independence, fair enough. I think
:10:28. > :10:32.it is going to open up a can of worms. Once apart we've got the
:10:32. > :10:36.euro, who will have the right to vote? There are many ties binding
:10:36. > :10:41.Scotland and England together, not least jobs and friendships and
:10:41. > :10:44.family. Often through marriage. Many areas and responsibilities
:10:44. > :10:49.which would need to be disen tangled and divided up if the union
:10:49. > :10:53.between two countries were to end. At Prime Minister's Questions,
:10:53. > :10:59.David Cameron issued this warning. There have been too many in the SNP
:10:59. > :11:02.who are happy to talk about the process, they don't want to talk
:11:02. > :11:06.about the substance. I sometimes feel when I listen to them it is
:11:06. > :11:11.not a referendum they want, it is a "neverendum"! In a rare sign of
:11:11. > :11:16.agreement the leaders of the two main parties at Westminster joined
:11:16. > :11:18.to fight the future of the United Kingdom. We on this side of the
:11:18. > :11:21.House believes the United Kingdom benefits the people of Scotland and
:11:21. > :11:26.the people of the rest of the United Kingdom in equal measure. We
:11:26. > :11:31.are stronger together and weaker apart. So what if Scotland chose to
:11:31. > :11:35.go it alone? The SNP wants to end nuclear weapons based on the Clyde.
:11:35. > :11:38.They also argue it is Scotland's oil. Would the rest of the UK
:11:38. > :11:42.accept this? The country would have to take on its share of the
:11:42. > :11:45.national debt if it became independent. And Downing Street
:11:45. > :11:49.today warned that Scotland may be forced to join the euro if it left
:11:49. > :11:52.the union. The Government in Edinburgh is in favour of joining
:11:52. > :11:56.the euro but say only at a time beneficial to the Scottish economy
:11:56. > :12:00.and they will decide when ta time will be. As to the referendum,
:12:00. > :12:04.Scotland's First Minister insists it is up to the Scottish people to
:12:04. > :12:09.decide. It is our future, after all, that we are deciding. Scotland's
:12:09. > :12:13.always willing to talk, but we won't be bullied, we won't be
:12:13. > :12:18.intimidated or dictated to by a Tory Prime Minister in London.
:12:18. > :12:21.Salmond that said the referendum on independence will happen in autumn
:12:21. > :12:30.2014 there. Could well be legal battles over the form that
:12:30. > :12:33.referendum will take. It is still a long road ahead.
:12:33. > :12:38.Life to Downing Street and Nick Robinson, who is there for us. How
:12:38. > :12:42.significant do you think that united front we saw today is?
:12:42. > :12:45.significant for this reason. Up until now there's been lots of talk
:12:45. > :12:49.of the need for the unionist parties to get together but they
:12:49. > :12:53.haven't done it. We saw that unlikely alliance today between
:12:53. > :12:57.David Cameron and Ed Miliband. Though he didn't speak about it,
:12:57. > :13:01.Nick Clegg is part of that alliance too. In other words, the three big
:13:01. > :13:05.UK parties are standing as one, saying there should be a referendum
:13:05. > :13:09.on independence, it should be sooner rather than later, but
:13:09. > :13:13.crucially there should only be a simple yes or no vote on
:13:13. > :13:16.independence. What was striking today is that beneath the rhetoric
:13:16. > :13:21.here in Westminster and in Edinburgh, the war of words, if you
:13:21. > :13:24.like, there are signs of the possibilities of a deal emerging. I
:13:24. > :13:27.spoke to a senior Government source today who made it clear that
:13:27. > :13:32.despite all the fuss about the date of the referendum, now Alex Salmond
:13:32. > :13:39.has talked about it being in autumn 2014, they are pretty relaxed about
:13:39. > :13:42.giving him that, provided this - they get simply that one vote. A
:13:42. > :13:47.yes-no vote on independence. Why? Because the fear of the unionist
:13:47. > :13:50.parties is this. It is that Mr Salmond knows he might lose a
:13:50. > :13:55.referendum on independence, so he wants a fall-back position, a sense
:13:55. > :13:59.of Scotland with many more powers but keeping the symbols of the UK.
:13:59. > :14:04.The Queen and the pound and the armed forces, and that he would
:14:04. > :14:08.then claim credit for that. The irony of all this is that Labour
:14:08. > :14:12.and the Liberal Democrats are in fact looking at, exploring the idea
:14:12. > :14:17.of giving many more powers to the Scottish Parliament. But there is
:14:17. > :14:19.one thing they are certain about. They will not give Alex Salmond,
:14:19. > :14:22.they will not give the Scottish National Party the credit for that.
:14:22. > :14:30.They want a referendum on independence. They want to defeat
:14:30. > :14:34.it and they want it over and done Wales could see the biggest
:14:34. > :14:38.reshaping of the political map since the Second World War under
:14:38. > :14:42.proposals from the Boundary Commission. The planned J'Accuse
:14:42. > :14:45.would affect every Welsh constituency -- the planned changes
:14:45. > :14:50.would affect every Welsh constituency and reduce the number
:14:50. > :14:53.of Westminster MPs by a quarter. The plans are a response -- in
:14:53. > :14:56.response to new requirements on the size of Westminster constituencies.
:14:56. > :15:00.The Iranian authorities have accused foreign powers of plotting
:15:00. > :15:04.a bomb attack which killed a nuclear scientist in Tehran today.
:15:04. > :15:07.It is the fourth attack in two years on scientists linked to
:15:07. > :15:12.Iran's controversial nuclear programme. The killing comes at a
:15:12. > :15:17.time of rising tension between Western countries and Iran.
:15:17. > :15:22.This is how the careers of Iran's nuclear scientists sometimes end.
:15:22. > :15:27.This morning, Professor Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan did not even make it
:15:27. > :15:31.out of his car. TRANSLATION: It was about seven in
:15:31. > :15:35.the morning. I was taking a taxi to work when I heard the blast. I told
:15:35. > :15:39.the driver to speed up. Later someone told me that someone had
:15:39. > :15:44.attached a bomb to a car which had caused the explosion. Professor
:15:44. > :15:51.Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was a supervisor at a uranium enrichment
:15:51. > :15:55.facility in central Iran. No one has claimed his killing. But in a
:15:56. > :16:01.covert campaign, no one does. Israel's Military chiefs suggested
:16:01. > :16:06.yesterday that Iran could expect an natural events in 2012. This may be
:16:07. > :16:11.the first. One of Iran's main suspects says it had nothing to do
:16:11. > :16:19.with the attack. I want to categorically deny any United
:16:19. > :16:23.States involvement in any kind of act of violence inside Iran. This
:16:23. > :16:27.morning's attack is the latest in a series of unclaimed bombings and
:16:27. > :16:33.explosions in Iran. Two years ago, a physics professor in Tehran was
:16:33. > :16:38.killed as he left for work. In November 2010, motorcyclists bombed
:16:38. > :16:43.two prominent nuclear scientists in the capital. And two months ago, a
:16:43. > :16:49.large explosion killed 17 soldiers at a missile base outside Tehran.
:16:49. > :16:53.But Iran says it will not be put off. It was a point it made during
:16:53. > :16:58.missile tests earlier this month. It has worries, it hides them
:16:59. > :17:04.behind displays of power. The more Iran moves in the direction of
:17:04. > :17:09.being able to develop weapons in the future, the closer we will get
:17:09. > :17:14.a more coercive actions. Iran's government can survive attacks on
:17:14. > :17:19.these, its nuclear scientists. But its nuclear activities are also
:17:19. > :17:25.provoking sanctions against the country's valuable oil exports. For
:17:25. > :17:31.Iran's leaders, that is a much more serious threat.
:17:31. > :17:41.Coming up: in the director's chair - why the Prime Minister wants
:17:41. > :17:44.public money to back cinema success. Mitt Romney, the former governor of
:17:44. > :17:48.Massachusetts, has reinforced his position as the Republican
:17:48. > :17:52.frontrunner likely to face Barack Obama in November's presidential
:17:53. > :17:57.election. He achieved a comfortable win in a pall of Republicans in New
:17:57. > :18:07.Hampshire, his second victory in the party's primaries. But success
:18:07. > :18:09.
:18:09. > :18:13.has brought intense scrutiny. The focus is now firmly on Mitt
:18:13. > :18:18.Romney. There is a way to go yeah, but this victory is a big step
:18:18. > :18:23.towards becoming the Republicans' choice to take on Barack Obama.
:18:23. > :18:28.Thank you, New Hampshire. Tonight, we made history! But making history
:18:28. > :18:32.could be hard for him. He is a Mormon, which worries evangelical
:18:32. > :18:35.Christians, and many Conservatives think he is not one of them. Now
:18:35. > :18:39.his role in the '80s as boss of an investment company is under attack.
:18:39. > :18:44.It is claimed he made millions while sacking thousands of workers.
:18:44. > :18:49.An advert made for a Republican rivals, complete with doom-laden
:18:49. > :18:57.score and gloomy skies, accuses him of buying up ailing firms and
:18:57. > :19:01.stripping their assets. thousands of Americans, the
:19:01. > :19:05.suffering was clear when Mitt Romney came to town. He told his
:19:05. > :19:09.rivals to lay off and not copy the Democrats. President Obama wants to
:19:10. > :19:17.put free-enterprise on trial. In the last few days, we have seen
:19:17. > :19:21.some desperate Republicans joined forces with him. This is such a
:19:21. > :19:27.mistake for our party. President Obama's Democrats have jumped on
:19:27. > :19:33.the bandwagon. Then you add claims to show Mitt Romney's true colours.
:19:33. > :19:36.I like being able to fire people. Part of Mitt Romney's appeal in New
:19:36. > :19:41.Hampshire was selling himself as a hard-headed businessman who knows
:19:41. > :19:45.how to create wealth and jobs. Now his rivals want to turn that on its
:19:45. > :19:49.head and suggest that he is so rich that he is insensitive, out of
:19:49. > :19:57.touch with the needs of ordinary Americans. So do these workers
:19:57. > :20:03.fixing power lines in New Hampshire think he behaved badly? I am not a
:20:03. > :20:09.big fan. Throwing people out of jobs to make a buck, he could have
:20:09. > :20:14.turned the company around and kept everyone working. That is free-
:20:14. > :20:22.enterprise capitalism. To save 90 jobs in a company that has 100
:20:22. > :20:26.people in it, you might lose 10 jobs. That is the way it is. A few
:20:26. > :20:31.signs are all that is left of this contest. Mitt Romney and his rivals
:20:31. > :20:35.have moved on to the next state to vote, South Carolina. After a
:20:35. > :20:38.relatively chilled campaign here, things are hotting up.
:20:38. > :20:42.A French journalist has been killed covering the anti-government
:20:42. > :20:46.demonstrations in Syria. He has been named as Gilles Jacquier, a
:20:46. > :20:49.television reporter for the state- owned channel France 2. Reports
:20:49. > :20:53.from the city of Homs say he died when the building he was in was hit
:20:53. > :20:55.by a shell. The French foreign minister said it was an "odious
:20:56. > :20:59.act". The government has suffered a
:20:59. > :21:03.series of defeats in the House of Lords tonight over its
:21:03. > :21:05.controversial welfare reforms. Peers rejected plans to cut the
:21:05. > :21:10.Employment Support Allowance for people who cannot work because of
:21:10. > :21:16.illness or disability. Let's get more from our deputy political
:21:16. > :21:20.editor James Landale. What happened here? I think the Government learnt
:21:20. > :21:23.how hard it will be to cut the welfare bill. It was defeated three
:21:23. > :21:28.times in the House of Lords over Employment Support Allowance. It is
:21:28. > :21:31.what used to be called incapacity benefit, for people who have paid
:21:31. > :21:37.national insurance, but cannot work because of illness or disability.
:21:37. > :21:40.Peers voted to allow people to claim this for a bit longer. They
:21:40. > :21:45.also voted to protect cancer sufferers and young disabled people
:21:45. > :21:50.from the cuts. If these defeats are not overturned in the House of
:21:50. > :21:55.Commons, the Government could face a bill of �2 billion over the next
:21:55. > :22:00.five years. That is money they will have to find from somewhere else.
:22:00. > :22:04.It is part of a wider context to do with getting the deficit down?
:22:04. > :22:08.coalition is about nothing if not cutting the deficit. Cutting the
:22:08. > :22:12.welfare bill is a huge part of that. The Liberal Democrat leadership
:22:12. > :22:17.might be signed up to that, but we have learnt that a sizable number
:22:17. > :22:20.of Lib Dem peers are reluctant to wield the axe. In one of the votes
:22:20. > :22:25.tonight, more than half of the Lib Dem peers failed to support the
:22:25. > :22:28.Government. The broader picture is that more disruptive nights like
:22:28. > :22:35.this for the Government, and they might get round to what they have
:22:35. > :22:37.always promised to do, which is reform of this place.
:22:38. > :22:40.The British film industry should ensure that public money is
:22:40. > :22:45.channelled into projects that are mainstream and commercially
:22:45. > :22:48.promising. That was David Cameron's view as he visited Pinewood Studios
:22:48. > :22:53.in Buckinghamshire today. A government review due next week is
:22:53. > :23:03.expected to make the same point, but industry figures warned that it
:23:03. > :23:04.
:23:04. > :23:11.is difficult to predict the next box office hit.
:23:11. > :23:17.British films have been on a good run recently. There has been Oscar
:23:17. > :23:20.success, as well as money rolling in at the box office. A diet of a
:23:20. > :23:25.report on our movie business due to be published on Monday, the
:23:25. > :23:28.Government thinks the industry could do better. This afternoon,
:23:28. > :23:31.the Prime Minister visited Pinewood Studios, where he let it be known
:23:31. > :23:38.that he hoped there would be a rebalancing of how lottery money is
:23:38. > :23:40.used to support film. Less art house, and more blockbuster. From
:23:40. > :23:46.the earliest days of cinema, successive governments have tried
:23:46. > :23:49.to create a British film industry. In the 1920s, an act was passed
:23:49. > :23:54.introducing the idea of a quota system guaranteeing that British
:23:55. > :24:01.films be shown. That did not work, nor have any subsequent ideas. The
:24:01. > :24:06.scene is still dominated by the Americans. The latest government
:24:06. > :24:11.idea is to back people, not projects. Prove yourself at the
:24:11. > :24:14.box-office, and the daughter funding is open. They want to see
:24:14. > :24:19.four King's Speech size tramps a year, not one. The writer of the
:24:19. > :24:24.Oscar-winning film got that park and the TV series Downton Abbey has
:24:24. > :24:30.some sympathy with the idea. I have been critical of the idea that all
:24:30. > :24:35.public money should go into minority, obscure films. I think it
:24:35. > :24:43.is in the interests of the industry and the public that we start making
:24:43. > :24:47.more films people want to see. is very blue, and very unusual, but
:24:47. > :24:53.this film has been watched and admired around the world. It raises
:24:53. > :24:57.the issue - how do you know what is going to be popular? How do you
:24:57. > :25:02.predict success from something that is based on words on a piece of
:25:02. > :25:08.paper and lists of names of actors and participants? You cannot
:25:08. > :25:12.evaluator until it is finished. That has defeated all the
:25:12. > :25:17.accountants in Hollywood, that problem. In terms of Hollywood, it
:25:17. > :25:21.has led to a very stale period in their film making. Avant-garde
:25:21. > :25:25.film-makers will continue to be supported, but the government wants
:25:26. > :25:28.to see a profound change of emphasis towards the mainstream,