A great end to the year of Book Club with Sylvia Kent and our guest, the multi-award winning filmmaker, Director and Producer, Simon Frith.
Simon came in to talk about his work and in particular Under the Radar – The Mike Edmonds Story which is in post production with a release set for early in 2016. Simon has interviewed many amazing actors/directors for this film. Star Wars and Indiana Jones Producer, Robert Watts, Film Director and Python, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett) Actor, Danny John Jules but to name a few.
Actor Mike Edmonds is from Southend, Essex. Having worked on Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Time Bandits, Flash Gordon, Harry Potter but to name a few. Mike has also toured with The Royal Shakespeare Company. Millions of children will also know him as Little Ron in the BBC Maid Marian and her Merry Men series.
Interview Part One
Interview Part Two
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BOOKS DISCUSSED
Donna Tarrt – The Secret History
Set in New England, The Secret History tells the story of a closely knit group of six classics students at a small, elite Vermont college, Hampden College, similar in many respects to Bennington College (in Bennington, Vermont) where Tartt was a student from 1982 to 1986.
The story is an inverted detective story, not a Whodunit but a Whydunit.
REVIEWS
“A beautifully written story, well-told, funny, sad, scary, and impossible to leave alone until I finished. . . . What a debut!” —John Grisham
The author
Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History, The Little Friend, and The Goldfinch, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014.
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MORE ABOUT SYLVIA KENT
https://sylviakent.blogspot.co.uk/
Sylvia contributes to national, regional magazines and on-line journals. Following her Freelance Writer of the Year award for Writing Magazine, she began work on FOLKLORE OF ESSEX which contributed to Channel 5’s film COUNTY SECRETS. Sylvia’s book THE WOMAN WRITER, published by the History Press is sold @ the British Library. This history of the Society of Women Writers & Journalists dates from 1894 and includes pioneers who made their mark in journalism, literature & poetry. Sylvia celebrates the centenary of Joyce Grenfell, a former SWWJ president. A chapter is dedicated to Joyce who meanders throughout the book which was reviewed in The Times, other dailies & YouTube. Sylvia is SWWJ’s Archivist. She work with several publishers including on-line specialists.Ebook titles are BRENTWOOD: HISTORIC TOWN & ST MARY MAGDALEN: BILLERICAY, both downloadable via Kindle. later books are kindlised. 2,000 articles are linked to Facebook,Twitter @sylviaakent & Suite 101. Film/audio clips now added.
Sylvia’s 10th book Barking & Dagenham From Old Photographs is selling well.
Sylvia’s Blog is currently 170.000 page views.
