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Radio 4, 9.45amIn 1972 the writer John
Berger launched his
landmark series Ways of
Seeing, which examined
how we look at art,
encompassing subjects
such as art in the age of
mechanical reproduction,
the female nude and the
male gaze. Marking its 50th
anniversary, five writers
talk across the week about
an image that is important
to them while reflecting on
how Berger’s Ways of Seeing
influenced them. We start
with the writer Geoff Dyer,
above, who chooses a
picture by photojournalist
Robert Capa and declares
how Berger (who died in
2017 at the age of 90) “made
boring old paintings of men
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espite how much we now
know about the national
disgrace that was the
Hillsborough disaster and
the shameless police
cover-up that followed, it never fails to
horrify, shock or incense. The story of
Hillsborough is a vast, complex mosaic
of grief, pain, familial love,
establishment back-covering and
obscene victim-blaming. But Anne
pulled out one thread: the magnificent
fight for justice by Anne Williams,
whose 15-year-old son Kevin went to
watch Liverpool play Nottingham
Forest in 1989 in Sheffield and never
came home. A special constable saidshe saw Kevin open his eyes and heard
him say the word “mum” while he was
lying in a makeshift mortuary,
meaning he was alive after the 3.15pm
“cut-off” time imposed at the first,
now discredited inquests (the coroner,
Dr Stefan Popper, said victims were
either dead or brain dead by that
time). It suggested that with proper
treatment he might have lived.
Imagine, as a parent, living with that.
Anne tells the story of how an
“ordinary” mother from Formby,
Liverpool, with no legal training
became utterly extraordinary in
refusing to accept the convenient (ie
false) version of events fed to her and
other bereaved families, ferociously
taking on the system at a time when
many were not interested or told her
to “just move on” (I remember those
voices all too well). ITV deserves
credit for devoting a full four hours to
this scandal, which requires time and
nuance to do it justice (it is broadcast
over the next three nights), especially
in the new year, when channels might
be tempted by “lighter” subjects.
Maxine Peake’s performance as
Anne, floored by grief but then
galvanised into action, was potent. The
dramatic effect was heightened by the
interweaving of real footage from the
time. How many thousands of times
must she have wished she had stuck to
her guns and refused to let Kevin go to
Sheffield because she didn’t like himattending away games? The scene in
which she and her husband, Steve
(Stephen Walters), bickered mildly in
their living room while trying to get
through to the emergency line just
after the tragedy, unaware that their
lives had changed for ever, was hugely
affecting. But not as much as the one
in which the couple travelled to that
Hillsborough hall where relatives had
to submit their loved ones’ names and
dates of birth, then look at Polaroid
photos of people, many just children,
lying dead, their necks at strange
angles having been crushed and
asphyxiated in the pens. Anne refused
to confirm that Kevin’s young face was
on that death board and her husband
had to gently insist that, yes, it was. It
was a quiet moment of utter horror.
So too was the one in which she
combed Kevin’s hair in his open coffin,
his lovely face showing barely a mark
of injury. Kevin Sampson’s script was
lean and authentic at the moments
that mattered, such as when Anne and
Steve, deep in grief, spoke in half,
unfinished sentences, just as people do.
It is 26 years since ITV broadcast
Jimmy McGovern’s Hillsborough. Anne
showed that, almost 33 years after the
tragedy happened, it has lost none of
its dramatic force. Although Anne
Williams died of cancer in 2013, she
remains a shining example of the force
of a mother’s love. She deserves this
tribute, and we should never forget.Potent tale of a mother’s love and timeless grief
JUSTIN SLEECarol
Midgley
TV review
Anne
ITV
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