Paul Abbott is one of the most respected writers currently working in British television. Starting off as a story editor on Coronation Street, he built his reputation with episodes of the psychological police drama Cracker and scored a massive success for the BBC with Clocking Off.
Here, in exclusive interview clips, he talks about his most recent project State of Play which was recently shown on BBC Two and BBC Four. You can see the rest of the interview in Time Shift's documentary on political thrillers on BBC Four.
INTERVIEW CLIP
Why did he decide to write a political thriller and what issues did he want to address?
2 min 17
INTERVIEW CLIP
Writing in the current political climate and how interested the public really are.
3 min 16
