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Tom

August 4, 2022

FOR LOVE NOT MONEY

The Sunday Times Magazine

Captain Tom’s charity walk raised £38.9 million for the NHS. Now the foundation set up by his family is being investigated over its handling of his legacy.They speak to David James Smith

And then the personal hate starts for her too. “I was called devious, a shrew, all those words we use because we are still suspicious of successful women. Words used to demonise.” She doubts she would have received such abuse if she were a son of Tom. “I was [accused of] making him do it, I was cattle-prodding him, I was treating him abysmally and forcing him into it.”

July 17, 2022

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NEWS AND EVENTS

Latest News

  • The Sleep Of Reason – The James Bulger Case by David James Smith:
    Faber Finds edition with new preface, available September 15th, 2011.

  • Young Mandela the movie – in development.

    From The Guardian
    Read the article

    In the Diary column of The Independent, April 13th, 2011

    More on my previously unsubstantiated claim that the writer-director Peter Kosminsky, creator of The Promise, is working on a drama about Nelson Mandela. I’ve now learnt that the project is a feature film, in development with Film 4, about the young Mandela. Kosminsky is currently at work on the script and, given the complaints about the anti-Jewish bias of The Promise, it is unlikely to be a standard bland portrait of the former South African president.

Latest Review

    New York Times – J. M. Ledgard

  • Nelson Mandela was circumcised as a 16-year-old boy alongside a flowing river in the Eastern Cape. The ceremony was similar to those of other Bantu peoples. An elder moved through the line making ring-like cuts, and foreskins fell away. The boys could not so much as blink; it was a rite of passage that took you beyond pain. read full review

See David James Smith…

Jon Venables: What Went Wrong
BBC 1, 10.35
Thursday, April 21st, 2011