Is the film Scum based on a true story?
Is the film Scum based on a true story? Scum charts the day-to-day life in a British borstal. Yet it does all of this by presenting a dramatised play as a factual document; a raw, almost documentary-like collection of true-to-life stories from genuine borstal life. Did scum get banned? Scum is a 1977 British television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke. It was intended to be screened as part of the Play for Today series. Instead the production was banned by the BBC after it was completed in 1977, and not aired until BBC 2 showed...