EXCLUSIVE: A brand new BBC documentary will inform the tales of six individuals who boarded the ill-fated Pan Am 103 flight that was blown up over the small Scottish city of Lockerbie, killing all 259 passengers and crew and 11 folks on the bottom.
Lockerbie: Our Story will see the household and mates of the victims describe their misplaced family members in intimate element.
Two Rivers Media, out of Glasgow, Scotland, produced the movie for BBC One, BBC Scotland and iPlayer. It’s directed by Stephen Bennett, who is understood for making Dunblane: Our Story and the latest Sky documentary The Tattooist’s Son: Journey to Auschwitz.
The Lockerbie bombing in December 1988 stays the deadliest terrorist assault in Britain. The repercussions stay keenly felt many years later. Abu Agila Masud will stand trial in Washington later this 12 months, accused of constructing the bomb that downed the Pan Am airplane.
Lockerbie: Our Story, nevertheless, zeroes in on the private tales emanating from the atrocity moderately than the felony investigations, controversy or conspiracy theories. Household and mates pay tribute to their misplaced family members within the movie, detailing their painful, touching and joyful recollections.
“Almost forty years on from the bombing of Pan Am 103, this movie shines a protracted overdue mild on a few of the folks and private tales behind the bombing,” stated Clare Sillery, the BBC’s Head of Commissioning, Documentaries.
A doc that gives private views on Lockerbie is particularly well timed within the wake of complaints {that a} latest Sky and Peacock drama with Colin Firth in regards to the catastrophe, Lockerbie: A Search For Truth, was insensitive.
Two Rivers boss Alan Clements exec produces and stated it will be significant the voices within the movie proceed to be heard: “We really feel extraordinarily proud that the households on this movie have given Two Rivers such open entry to their tales, lots of them talking for the primary time.”
Louise Thornton, Head of Commissioning BBC Scotland added: “It was an atrocity which shocked the world and adjusted lives ceaselessly. Our documentary will honor the reminiscence of these misplaced, and inform the tales of these left behind, with the best of care.”
The 60-minute movie will likely be within the BBC One, BBC Scotland and iPlayer in some unspecified time in the future this 12 months.
The BBC has beforehand introduced a factual drama in regards to the investigation into the bombing of Pan Am flight 103. World Productions is making the six-parter, which is for the BBC within the UK and Netflix globally.
