Lee Hall: Spielberg, Scargill and me
On the 30th anniversary of the miners' strike, Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall talks about Thatcher's death, being fired from War Horse " and finding the lead for his Elton John musicalI'm watching Billy Elliot the Musical in a state of shock. Forget the movie " this is incendiary drama, militant to its core. Not only does it open with Labour MP Herbert Morrison's paean to the newly nationalised mines and common ownersh…