Farage on 4 - don't miss it
Monday, March 31, 2014 at 18:24
Simon Clark

Looking forward to watching Nigel Farage: Who Are You? on TV tonight.

This is how Channel 4 describes the documentary, which starts at 7.30:

On a six-month journey full of incident, controversial filmmaker Martin Durkin gets to know Nigel Farage, the controversial UKIP leader who's turning British politics upside down.

You may remember that we invited Nigel to take part in Forest's Liberty Lounge event at The Comedy Store during the Conservative conference in Manchester last year.

I wrote about it here, Nigel Farage lights up Conservative conference fringe, and added this postscript:

Boris Johnson was the star of another not-so-fringe meeting at exactly the same time that Nigel Farage was appearing at The Comedy Store.

The BBC sent reporters to both events - see Tory conference: Boris Johnson v Nigel Farage.

The Forest/IEA meeting was also filmed by a TV crew making a documentary about Farage for Channel 4.

I would be very surprised if our event is featured in the Durkin's documentary, if only because it was the smallest of three meetings Nigel took part in that day, but there may be a shot of him drinking and smoking outside before his interview with the IEA's Mark Littlewood.

Either way, it should be an entertaining 60 minutes.

See also: Censorship of Forest Tory ad "heavy-handed to say the least" and Invitation to A Beer and a Fag with Farage and other events.

Update: An early scene did feature Farage at the Forest/IEA event 'A Beer and a Fag with Farage' at The Comedy Store in Manchester.

Sadly we weren't credited.

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