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The film-maker, who is credited with inventing the fly-on-the-wall serial in shows like The Family and Sylvania Waters, gained fame for giving voice to the working classes
While Kevin Bakhurst has manifested signs of incipient vision, it must be even more creative, and not one which includes the constant shedding of staff like scabrous skin, writes Dr Finola Doyle O Neill
Errollyn Wallen’s Becoming a Composer (Faber, 2023) hit “the shelves” today, November 2, 2023. “I am a composer. A composer of classical music. Quite honestly I am not quite sure how that happened to a girl born in Belize and brought up in Tottenham . . . It is clear that composing found me. It…