Bungay on Crime - A Ferry Tale

You’ve got to get the best out of the person. Cross-examining in court, you’re trying to get the worst out of people. So I had to pull it back a hell of a lot.

– Mike Bungay on the difference between court work and television, The Listener, 17 October 1992

To fall off a ferry once is one thing, but to fall off two different ferries within one week in two different countries obviously adds up to something that stinks.

– Insurance investigator David B Denton

It's an informative programme. I insisted we didn't dramatise the facts, because it must retain credibility. we don't come down with conclusions. We say, you judge. These are the facts.

– Mike Bungay in The Listener, 17 October 1992, page 14

...we would never have got the cooperation we did without [Mike] Bungay. The police were very candid, and so were lawyers. Bungay is incredibly respected by most of these people, especially the cops. Bungay is regarded as a difficult bastard but he's straight.

– Produce Dave Gibson in OnFilm, September 1992, page 9 (Volume IX, no 8)

Each episode case studies a crime chosen because of the legal theme it illustrates: forgery, spying, scene of the crime, immunity, fraud . . . The 10 crimes were selected according to not only their legal themes but also their legal themes but also their geographical spread, racial mix and the type of crime they were.

– OnFilm, September 1992, page 9 (Volume IX, no 8)