Last year we ran what I thought was a pretty informative and
entertaining read on both Derek Raymond and Patrick
Hamilton.
Have a look for youerselves. Me thinks it cast some new light
and angle on the worthy topic:
http://www.yourfleshmag.com/artman/publish/article_727.shtml
-PD
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, scatalogic@... wrote:
>
> Thank you John, that was fascinating (I'm from the
Forest of Dean
and a big fan of Dennis Potter's, you can see some kind of
kin in their spirits - angry, compassionate, depressive).
What a shame. I wish you well with your biography, for which
I am now officially on tenterhooks, already. Sorry.?And, I
have no idea why question marks are cropping up in my mail
like that.
>
> Cheers, Colin. ?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Williams
<johnwilliams@...>
> To:
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> Sent: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:09
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: How The Dead Live (Derek
Raymond not Will Self)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Colin inquired
>
> I do remember reading somewhere - I think in a book
jacket from the
80s?
> listing amonghis other works including, The Factory
Series - now a BBC
> television production, but?I've never been able to
find out any more;
> whether it was?never produced, or just a pilot -?if
any avians know?any
> more about that I'd be thrilled to hear it!?Talk of
films a few years
> ago doesn't seem to have come to
anything.
>
> Sadly it's just another TV series that never got off
the ground. It was
> close, scripts were written (by Paul Billing who
went on to write a
> Prime Suspect and some Reginald Hill adaptations). I
read one and it
was
> pretty good. Kenith Trodd (Dennis Potter's
collaborator) was to produce
> for the BBC. But then Derek - and Dennis Potter -
died and the momentum
> went out of the project. Publishers love to jump the
gun on film/TV
> adaptations.
>
> There are two film adaptation of his books, both
made in France - Les
> Mois d'avril sont meurtriers (adapted from The
Devil's Home on Leave)
> and* *On ne meurt que deux fois (starring Charlotte
Rampling and
adapted
> from He Died With His Eyes Open). I've seen part of
the latter (I was
> watching it in company with the author and he
insisted on going out for
> a drink about half way through). It looked OK up to
that point, though
> the French have a rather more upmarket vision of
squalor as compared to
> the book.
>
> There's still talk of future adaptations but nothing
remotely concrete.
> The excellent Cathi Unsworth recently presented a
series of radio shows
> concerned with Derek's work There's info about them
here -
> www.serpentstail.com/content_item?id=213 - but sadly
I can find no sign
> of the promised podcasts just yet.
>
> As a hostage to fortune I'll mention that I'm
starting work on the
> authorised biography. Will take a year or two, I'm
sure.
>
> John
> >
> >
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