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The out of this world growth of UFO podcasts
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have spent most of my life avoiding writing about real people. In fact, as a screenwriter, I’ve made half a career out of avoiding it. I wrote pieces that were about real people, but not quite. With my TV dramas National Treasure, Kiri and Help, out of necessity I wrote towards the truth but didn’t embrace it utterly. With National Treasure, I wrote about historic sex crimes and referenced famous sex offenders, but didn’t write them because to do so was legally and ethically complicated and might involve upsetting or worsening the damage already done to victims. With Kiri, we risked disrupting ongoing legal cases. With Help, I wanted to write about care homes during the pandemic without exposing any one of them to unwelcome
