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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/bbc-afghanistan-drama-criticised.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Colonel Tim Collins has described an episode of a BBC One drama as a 'desperate' attempt to shock" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-bbc-afghanistan-drama-criticised.jpg" alt="Colonel Tim Collins has described an episode of a BBC One drama as a 'desperate' attempt to shock"/></a></p>
<p>Gulf War veteran Colonel Tim Collins has criticised an episode of a BBC One drama set on the front line as irresponsible and a &#8220;desperate&#8221; attempt to &#8220;shock&#8221;.</p>
<p>Accused, penned by Bafta-winning TV dramatist Jimmy McGovern whose credits include Cracker and The Street, features six prime-time dramas about crime and punishment.</p>
<p>The second episode, which stars Mackenzie Crook as &#8220;maverick and bully&#8221; Corporal Buckley, sees two friends join the British Army and discover in Afghanistan that not obeying orders has deadly consequences.</p>
<p>Col Collins, who gained worldwide fame for his eve-of-battle address to his men in the Royal Irish Regiment, criticised the episode, to be broadcast next Monday, for its &#8220;generous lashings of gratuitous violence&#8221; and &#8220;constant and slightly contrived use of foul and abusive language&#8221;.</p>
<p>He told the Radio Times that the BBC drama &#8220;abjectly fails&#8221; the &#8220;responsibility test&#8221; and &#8220;fails the soldiers on the front line&#8221;.</p>
<p>Viewers saw &#8220;non-commissioned officers run a camp that has more in common with Second World War Japan than modern-day Afghanistan&#8221;, said Col Collins, who retired from the British Army in 2004.</p>
<p>He told the magazine: &#8220;The constant and slightly contrived use of foul and abusive language and the generous lashings of gratuitous violence all add up to a desperate plea to be seen as shocking and cutting edge.</p>
<p>&#8220;The actors don&#8217;t seem convinced of the whole proposition. And I don&#8217;t blame them. Having served in the British Army for 23 years I can unequivocally say that this has absolutely no basis in &#8230; reality.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the war zone, &#8220;thugs in what appear to be a representation of British Army uniforms slug it out with insurgents who are hammed up like extras from a Hollywood spoof movie,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Col Collins criticised a scene in which a character, who is bullied and labelled &#8220;the bitch&#8221;, has a bucket of human excrement thrown over him, as &#8220;unthinkable&#8221; and &#8220;offensive&#8221;.</p>
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