A severe bout of food poisoning helped. As the case ambled its way towards becoming the longest in history, funding became more and more of a problem. My haggling abilities came on enormously and I used up a lifetime's worth of favours. Helen and Dave had persuaded an extraordinary list of more than 70 scientists, researchers and former McD's employees to give evidence on their behalf, from the Secretary of the International Union of Food Workers to some of the world's leading cancer experts. We interviewed many of them.
Spy later gives evidence for defendants and appears in our film.
We put her in the box marked 'exclusives', along with a secret meeting between the two sides and an interview with a former Ronald McDonald. Talking to people on the other side was not so easy. When we wrote to McDonald's expert witnesses asking for interviews we received replies not from them, but from the Corporation's press office. After the verdict he said he'd never promised anything of the sort. It seemed to us that the only way to include McDonald's side of the story was to dramatise their witnesses' evidence.