Career
Early in his career he made documentary features for the British Broadcasting Corporation programmes Tomorrow"s World and Towards Tomorrow. In 2005, his film Red Mercury was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival. Battersby was a Trotskyist for some years, becoming a full-time organiser for the now defunct Workers Revolutionary Party.
The association had ended by 1981, but the connection led to him being blacklisted by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
