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deadline.comBBC Sets Feature On Fire At Bradford Soccer Match The BBC is making a feature doc about a tragic fire at a Bradford soccer match that preceded the Hillsborough disaster.
On the 40th anniversary of the tragedy, the BBC said Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire (working title) will provide “the definitive record of a forgotten tragedy, as told through the compelling personal testimony of those who were there, many of whom speak here for the first time.” The fire is believed to have been started by a discarded cigarette or match at half time of Bradford City’s game with Lincoln City in 1985.
The number of lives lost reached 56 and the event made headlines around the world but has since been somewhat forgotten, overshadowed by the Hillsborough disaster that took place four years later.
Simon Young, BBC Head of Commissioning, History, said: “This film gets at the heart of a modern dilemma. In a world where everything is recorded on film, how do we sensitively remember and commemorate?
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