film “We was the people before there was time … and time’s overtook us.” 29 May 202529 May 2025 “When George Borrow lived with the Gypsies over 100 years ago, Petulengro told him: ‘Life is very sweet brother; who would wish to die?’ To find out if life was…
television drama Savage Ms-Siah 5 Jun 201723 Jul 2024 “We’ll only ever change things by going on with what we believe.” In the early 2000s, I was researching my book on the history of the BBC's Play for Today…
television drama A Light Touch And A Good Ear 27 Feb 201715 Feb 2022 When I wrote an obituary of the enchanting writer Julia Jones for The Independent, I said that she "quietly and assuredly told bewitching, humane stories of simple lives in crisis,…
Dreams Gathering Dust 