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National Treasure - Winners' acceptance speech, Mini-Series, Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards in 2017

14 May 2017

Winner's acceptance speech on behalf of George Ormond, Marc Munden, Jack Thorne and John Chapman for National Treasure in the Mini-Series category

JACK THORNE:  Thank you very, very much.  We realised, trying to tell this story, how much responsibility we had to try and get it right and do justice to the people whose stories our story involved.  And everyone on this stage and everyone at Channel 4 worked extremely hard to do that.  So thank you to Marc, George, John, Toby, George.  Thank you to Piers and Beth at Channel 4. Thank you to our amazing cast, who I can't believe I got to work with, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Waters, Andrea Riseborough. But mainly, we want to say that this is -- and it is interesting tonight that there seems to have been a lot of people on stage talking about untold stories, and this is for the people whose stories haven't been told, for those who were brave enough to come forward and those whose scars were too deep to do so.  So thank you very much. Thank you.

(Applause)