![]() it's shocking that this receives little or no complaints and yet "Jerry Springer: The Opera" receives the record for the most complaints ever for a Televised programme. It's a miracle that there wasn't some moral uproar after it was aired which says something for the times we live in. I won't make my own views of capital punishment a secret, I'm very much against it but even those who condone it have to confess that "The Execution of Gary Glitter" is blatantly biased, one sided right wing propaganda at it's worst, not to mention that the decision to choose Glitter as the focus of this mockumentary leaves a bitter taste in the mouth and for that matter is tasteless in the extreme. While we watch Gadd portrayed uncannily by the relatively unknown Hilton McCrae go through the whole legal hoopla, go through court and the subsequent moments after he is found guilty and awaits execution. ![]() We the viewer are subjected to a mixture of real and fake footage (which to the filmmakers credit is quite realistic looking and could be easily mistaken for the real thing), z list celebrities who range from Gary Bushell and Anne Widecombe who aren't shy about making their pro-capital punishment views known. "The Execution of Gary Glitter" creates the conceit of offering the viewer an alternative version of Great Britain where the death penalty has been reintroduced and where upon his arrival back in the UK, Paul Gadd better known as former seventies rock idol Gary Glitter is arrested and then awaits to be put on trial where upon if he is found guilty of his notoriously evil crimes outside the UK he could face the death penalty. “There are interesting questions to be asked” she added.Capital punishment has always been a contentious subject and with this in mind Channel 4 produced one of the most contentious "mockumentaries" imaginable and arguably one that is a tad unsavoury. Miss Widdecombe said she did not believe the death penalty would ever be reintroduced but that there was “a moral case for it”. She added: “I don’t have anything personal against Gary Glitter.” They wanted to do the interview and I agreed to do it.” “They said at a later stage they might use it in relation to a specific case. “At the time I knew merely that they were putting on a drama that suggested the home secretary had reinstated the death penalty, and that at the end the home secretary would have doubts. ![]() “I didn’t even know I was in it,” she said. Speaking to the Kent Messenger this week, Miss Widdecombe said she recalled being interviewed for a drama but did not know it was to be used in The Execution of Gary Glitter. In the dramatised interview, she says taking away the death penalty has led to “rampant paedophilia”, more murders and “a society in which children kill each other”. ![]() The drama included an interview with Maidstone and Weald MP Miss Widdecombe (Con), a former Home Office minister, in which she defended the reintroduction of the death penalty. The Execution of Gary Glitter - Channel 4Īnn Widdecombe has revealed that she did not know she would appear in a fictional drama in which Gary Glitter was sentenced to death and hanged.Ĭhannel 4’s The Execution of Gary Glitter confronted viewers with an imaginary Britain in which the 1970s glam rock star and convicted paedophile - whose real name is Paul Gadd - becomes the first person to be tried and executed under new “Capital Crimes Against Children” legislation.
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