Phillip Adams – in his prime.
My focus would be on film – not on a film industry as such – but on the feature film as a focus for national aspirations. Working with my partner in cultural crime Barry Jones, our inspiration was more the films of Sweden and the courage of filmmakers in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia. And the arguments we would put to John Gorton were unashamedly patriotic, nationalistic and, let it be said, anti-American.
