He is the person who has written the storyline of this show. The show is created by Jimmy McGovern, who has also worked in Broken and The Street. ‘It becomes a story about many things, about what did happen to the Indigenous people, but going back to Jimmy’s comments, you’ve got to get an audience to watch something, and to want to watch something and people want to be engaged by drama-which is always the writers’ first responsibility.Banished is a British drama series that was first released on 5 March 2015 for the first time. ‘We wanted the audience to experience this strange world, this wild world of the Hawkesbury River back in the 1800s through the eyes of this family, through Will and Sal, and for all intents and purposes the story of the Secret River is about their relationship and the obstacles that are thrown at them, to see if the relationship will survive. It’s always going to throw up these issues,’ he says. ‘Even writing The Secret River, there’s been great controversies about the book, about how that played with history as well. Jan Sardi says telling the story of Australia’s colonisation will always throw up controversies about how Aboriginal characters are portrayed and their stories brought to life. Trevor Jamieson as Greybeard in The Secret River. ‘There are ways in which non-Aboriginal artists can serve the telling of urgent non-fiction Indigenous stories, but it is not white TV writers and directors telling a fictional story, based on a fictional novel by another white writer, and pretending it is a true story, while denying air time and opportunity for true, current, real Indigenous stories.’ ‘It's a blind, white literary giant dancing and crushing important stories from fragile communities-perpetrated unfortunately and perhaps naively, in part, by the ABC. ‘ a fictional story, by a white writer, getting enormous funding and air time, when there are many urgent, non-fiction stories of conflict, violence and genocide in Indigenous communities around the country that are being continually ignored and buried,’ he says. He argues that the series should also be considered as part of ‘the ongoing cultural genocide in this country’. While The Secret River does have an Indigenous cast, theatre writer and director Scott Rankin says it should not be immune from critique. ‘They didn’t think the poms could sit through an hour and a half of subtitles. ‘We wrote the scripts and we approached the BBC and the BBC wouldn’t do it because the Aboriginal side of the story had to be in language, of course, in Darug, the language of that area,’ Gudgeon says. Mac Gudgeon and Jan Sardi, who adapted Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River for television and are also friends of McGovern, confirm that Banished grew out of a plan for a two-part series that originally would have included Aboriginal characters. Listen: The Secret River director Daina Reid on RN Breakfast ‘I can fully understand Indigenous people demanding that the 1788 story be told from their perspective and demanding a proper part in the creation of it, but they should be demanding that from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, not the British.’ Seriously written by them, not tokenistically, but seriously written by Indigenous writers. ‘We were definitely going to bring in Indigenous people and have those stories written by Indigenous writers. However, he says, those plans are now ‘seemingly permanently on hold’. McGovern says he had always wanted the drama to have a second series, where Indigenous writers would be involved and Indigenous stories would be told. because it’s a drama series written by a British man for the British Broadcasting Corporation, for British people.’ ‘We might show the problems of the clashes of culture, but they would take their place alongside the problems of the climate, the problems with hunger, discipline, people falling in and out of bed with each other. ‘The part played by Indigenous characters would have been only part and parcel of the British experience as witnessed by British viewers on the BBC,’ he says. but they should be demanding that from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.McGovern says it is important for Indigenous perspectives of first contact to be told-as they are in The Secret River-but that was not his job. I can fully understand Indigenous people demanding that the 1788 story be told from their perspective.
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