Liza Williams’s recollections of 7 July 2005, when four British men – Hasib Hussain, Mohammad Sidique Khan, Germaine Lindsay and Shehzad Tanweer – blew themselves up on the London transport network, are hazy. “Memories fade,” she says. “It felt like it was time to retell the story.”
Speaking to some 750 people during the making of Netflix four-parter Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers, the director (a 2020 Bafta winner for The Yorkshire Ripper Files) and her team wanted to cover every possible perspective, from the prime minister to MI5, police to journalists, survivors to some who knew the bombers.
