--- Tavia tavia@btinternet.com wrote: > I've been trying to think of other broadly
sympathetic portrayals of terrorists in UK media, and perhaps I'm missing something really obvious, but the earliest thing I can come up with is Neil Jordan's 'The Crying Game' of 1992.
Off the top of my head-- "Edge of Darkness" (1985); "Knights of God" (1987) (Gareth Thomas as a Welsh nationalist, btw!)
I have to say, too, that I'm quite fond of folk music, and there's a long tradition in British folk of celebrating highwaymen, robbers and other people whom one probably wouldn't want to meet. Dunno if you want to count that as media...
But I think you could definitely count "The Pict Song" by Rudyard Kipling.
Fiona
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