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Mint Goes Back To The Future
10 May 2004 :

Car Crash: The DeLorean Story is the latest documentary special by Mint Productions and BBC Northern Ireland focusing on the fascinating tale of the rise and fall of legendary car maker John DeLorean.

Actor Adrian Dunbar narrates this one hour documentary which examines the events on the 19th October 1982, at the Sheraton Plaza, Los Angeles. Grainy footage showed businessman John DeLorean taking delivery of a mysterious suitcase before being arrested by the FBI. Back in Northern Ireland, his devoted workforce, recruited from hard-line Loyalist and Republican areas, looked on in disbelief. The core of the film is about the people who worked in DeLorean’s Belfast factory. Talking to many of those workers who felt history had misjudged John. They believed that he had really tried to help Belfast at a time when many industries were either shunning or withdrawing their investment in Belfast.

Jezz Wright, producer at Mint says of meeting John DeLorean “He talked about his theory that the British Government colluded with the FBI to get him 'out of the picture'. He believes that British secret service agents bumped off his business partner - the Lotus sports car founder Colin Chapman. He was bitter and angry and refused to accept any blame for his company’s failings.”

The programme will be broadcast on BBC1 Wednesday the 19th of May at 10.35pm.



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