Meg Jackson/Morris Interview, 1989

An excerpt from 'The Inside Story' documentary featuring Prisoner's 'Mrs Nice', Elspeth Ballantyne, being interviewed by Anglia TV announcer Paul Lavers. This is from when Elspeth, Patsy King & Glenda Linscott came over to the UK in 1989 to star in the first Prisoner stage play.

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Entertainment

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• Elspeth
• Ballantyne
• Meg
• Jackson
• Morris
• Prisoner
• Cell
• Block
• pcbh

[omegatango]

I think's just naturally this bubbly in person. I don't think she's drunk or stoned! lol

[MayIRemindU]

LOL! I totally agree, omegatango! I'm sure people often make the same mistake about me! ROFL! XD

[redtalula]

she seems like a really nice person. the clip of meg getting shot had me LMAO though, it's some of the worst Meg acting ever along with the 'flipper' scenes when Meg and Ann were trapped in that warehouse.

[MayIRemindU]

I think it's superb! Try pulling off a ballet spin and then crashing to the ground without hurting yourself! It's beyond genius!!!

[markxxx21]

What the hell is up with the interviewer's hair???

[MayIRemindU]

ROFL! It's a symphony of a syrup! XD

[tigerwoman]

She always looks younger than her true age.

[markxxx21]

1: 53) A pair of scissors punctured him? Gee she makes is sound almost like it was his fault...LOL

2: 20) Notice when Meg falls, how the actress playing Tracey is laughing

[jpww1979]

she never pissed off shit

[nineballaddict]

I tried to post the link here and it is not working... but if you search for prisoner concert you will find all four parts.

[CentralCake]

Treat others as you wish to be treated!

[jimmy82869]

Meg was visiting the halfway house run by Judy when Margo stole her car parked out front. Meg and Judy saw this from the window. Judy revealed to Meg that Margo had been at the house. Meg would not admit this while on the witness stand and evaded the question. It wasn't so much perjury. She just refused to answer the question for fear of damaging the halfway house program. I think they had been warned that it would be closed if something else happened. You are correct. She was held in comtempt.

[thisisthenewz]

is there no film footage of the stage play? Id really like to watch that

[corner2108]

As with other girls in similar situations of having to flop around in a skirt, she's trying to fall without flashing her knickers to the camera. Watch it again and see. And personally, Meg always looked better in jeans or slacks that that sack of a uni to me. She looked younger and slimmer. The screws would have looked more able breaking up fights and such if they wore the pants to the uniform.

[corner2108]

Funny that if Elspeth was a heavy smoker, in 7 years Meg was never seen smoking on screen, even when other characters were doing it (like Greg). Maybe, maybe very early on they all had cigarettes while sitting around meg's dining table in the first flat--but I don't recall seeing her actually smoke it. As a fellow asthmatic, I can't imagine someone smoking while having it. I'm glad she didn't puff away on camera, it doesn't suit Meg at all.

[corner2108]

I think she was held in contempt, not convicted of a crime, right? Elspeth says perjury, which is incorrect and a crime. If folks in law were sacked every time they were held in contempt, there'd be no lawyers left in court! It's more of a sanction than a criminal sentence. Lawyers and reporters are most affected, the latter for doing what Meg did--refusing to give something up (like the name of a source).