Peter Kosminsky: The South Bank Show ITV1, Sunday 24 May 10:15pm - 11:15pm Writer/director Peter Kosminsky tells Melvyn Bragg that he's "interested in making mischief and causing trouble". You can say that again. Kosminsky's drama-documentaries, though comparatively little-watched by anything approaching a mass TV audience, polarise opinion. They both infuriate and impress. His CV is second to none when it comes to tackling the big, painful and important things: No Child of Mine caused a furore in 1997 with its unflinching portrayal of child abuse and prostitution; 1999's Warriors, starring then little-known Damian Lewis and Matthew Macfadyen, looked at the effect of the bloody Bosnian conflict on UN peacekeepers. More recently Kosminsky won Baftas for The Government Inspector, his account of the death of Dr David Kelly, and Britz, an ambitious attempt to examine the radicalisation of a young British Muslim woman. The owlish Kosminsky, currently working on a film about Palestine, is a witty and honest interviewee who admits to mistakes and shortcomings. Of his early days making documentaries for the BBC and ITV, he says, "I was an arrogant young b*****d."
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