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I'm a digital writer and one half of the creative new media power house that is XPT Limited
Interests: playing golf on the moon with David Bowie
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'The Sleep Artist': seeking an agent/publisher for a novel
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For various reasons I've been relatively quiet online for the past year or so. But I have still been busy - mainly developing a long-form story idea called 'The Sleep Artist'. And now finally it's morphed into something coherent. Yes,... Continue reading
Posted Sep 2, 2024 at tim wright: digital writer
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'My Life Looked Good On Paper'
Extract from ‘Pull My Hair’ by Isabella Shure (1984) “Yes of course, that sound lovely. And so kind of you.” Isabelle waved her arms wildly, desperately mouthing ‘no, no, no’. Her mother stared back at her blankly. “The girls have probably been cooking this up for a while. Ah yes,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 12, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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A Six Week Tour
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“Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.” Extract from ‘Mary Shelley: The Making of A Monster’ by Isabella Shure It was Mary’s idea to travel through... Continue reading
Posted Aug 10, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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Tense? Nervous? Headache?
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TAPE 091 170290 Do I feel guilty about Chris?! What kind of silly question is that? No! I don’t feel responsible for my children’s happiness, if that’s what you mean. You make your own luck in this life, I say. It’s all been pretty cushty for Christopher, if you ask... Continue reading
Posted Aug 9, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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"I don't regret the things I've done, but those I did not do."
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“Do you have any regrets?” Shure was once asked. “Just one,” he replied. He left his interviewer guessing about what it was. Having mapped out the man’s life in this book, might it be possible to identify it? Possibly. The most obvious and common regret that men often have in... Continue reading
Posted Jul 26, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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War Damage (in development 1993-94)
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When Peter Shure’s diaries finally came to light, there was an immediate dispute about who owned them. Isabella claimed them for the estate and asserted herself as chief administrator. Martin Chambers initially insisted they must have been stolen from his house by Christopher Shure and, as such, were part of... Continue reading
Posted Jul 26, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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“I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life."
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People ask me about it all the time. What is the third funeral? When is the third funeral? 'C'est quand ? Quand? QUAND?!' It is not so easy to answer. When my dreams come to me, I don’t always see the whole picture, if you understand me. It is only... Continue reading
Posted Jul 26, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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“I prefer fact to fiction.”
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Based on an interview with Martin Chambers (2017) To be honest with you, I hadn’t even bothered looking for the diaries ‘til Helen put Attenborough on to them for his bloody film. I was in enough trouble already with Isabella over the house, the tapes and my intention to publish... Continue reading
Posted Jul 26, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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“What makes God laugh is people who make plans”
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PETER SHURE: bfi RETROSPECTIVE 2010 Tonight we continue our celebration of Peter Shure with a trio of films from the early 1970s. This was a period of Peter’s life when he was – it’s fair to say – an ‘itinerant’ actor. Having divorced in 1967, and subsequently fallen out so... Continue reading
Posted Jul 25, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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"I don't think any word can explain a man's life"
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It turns out Dorothy Hayter had not died in a WW2 air raid, had not been electrocuted on a fairground ride, had not emigrated to Canada, had not run off with a notorious bank robber, had not been murdered by her fascist partner, had not driven over a cliff –... Continue reading
Posted Jul 22, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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“Sometimes I wish I was ordinary like you. Dead ordinary.”
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BASED ON AN INTERVIEW WITH HELEN GROSVENOR (2022) Why did I not become more involved in the search for my darling Christopher in 1996? To a very large extent that is no-one’s business but my own. Moi tout seul. But I will tell you, nevertheless. Truly, I became tired of... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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Extracts from Peter Shure's Diaries: March 1990
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WEDNESDAY 28 MARCH I cannot believe Martin has booked me to do shoot a bloody advert on a Saturday! I have to trek all the way up to London to help sell a bloody breakfast cereal. I’m to be dressed up as Wee Willie Winky or some such nonsense, only... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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A Day At The Seaside (1970)
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“I gotta big jealous snake I have to deal with every day." Charles Manson The notion that death liked to follow Peter Shure around is not a new one. As Roman Polanski once remarked: "Je me demande si la mort essaie toujours d'apprendre de Peter quelle est la meilleure façon... Continue reading
Posted Jul 9, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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Getaway (1996)
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Everybody needs an out A way to exit An escape route It’s way too crowded The thoughts in my head You gotta get out Be somewhere else instead Everybody needs an open road A hiking trail A highway code Nobody knows you There’s a stranger in town Going under the... Continue reading
Posted Jul 8, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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SURFACING/DOWN THE HATCH (1984)
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SURFACING/DOWN THE HATCH The Lyric Studio, Hammersmith dir: Harold Pinter Helen Grosvenor’s first step into the world of theatre after a successful 30-year career in film and television is anything but tentative. In the one-act play ‘Surfacing’, she takes on the challenging role of Diana, a woman stuck down by... Continue reading
Posted Jul 4, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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"Life didn't ask your opinion"
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TAPE 123 050889 I was bloody furious! Helen didn’t even bother to tell me anything about it until Gérard called and asked me if I wanted to make a statement. ‘About what!?’ I said. Can you imagine?! Your own bloody son allowed to wander off into the woods. And there... Continue reading
Posted Jul 3, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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“Save The Life Of My Child” - August 1974
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The Scottish Journal, Wednesday 14 August 1974 Movie star’s son still missing for second night in Scottish wilderness Movie actress Helen Grosvenor (37) cut a small sorry figure yesterday, nothing like her usual exotic ebullient self, as she read out a statement to the press appealing for help in finding... Continue reading
Posted Jul 3, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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Choose Your Route
“Friend What you are about to see is not an idle tale of people who never existed and that that could never have happened. It is a PARABLE. Do not be alarmed: you will not be bored by it. It is, I hope, both true and inspired. Some of the... Continue reading
Posted Jun 4, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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Meltdown (1986)
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Explosion in reactor four Two men dead, maybe more We gotta deny There’s nothing wrong Don’t let the people know the score Fight the fire, regain control Irradiate two hundred souls Forget the heat Close the town Secrecy’s the only goal You can keep a lid on it You can... Continue reading
Posted Jun 4, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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Spot-Peter
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In my second year at Uni I acquired my first boyfriend, Dan. He was a sweet, smart, funny boy, quite short with brown curly hair and a permanent grin stamped on his face, as if his school years had been an absolute ‘gas’ and his mater and pater had always... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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Too Proud. Too Angry.
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"I don't believe in being fashionable. Try to be and you're usually out of date before you start." Jack Clayton All I can say is that Peter was difficult to work with. And difficult to live with. Thank the Lord I didn’t have to live with him that long. He... Continue reading
Posted May 30, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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Peter Shure: bfi Retrospective Speech by Martin Chambers, 2010
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“First of all I’d like to thank the BFI, and thank you specifically to the curators of this impressive Peter Shure retrospective for inviting me here tonight. I have not spoken in public for quite some time, so forgive me if I seem a bit nervous. Most of you probably... Continue reading
Posted May 29, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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Lilliput Magazine, November 1949 - AT THE CINEMA: ‘LANDFALL’
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By Nigel Bennett Meet The Real Men Behind The New Wave Of ‘War’ Movies Whilst women (and even some men) will swoon over Michael Denison in this neat little adaption of Nevil Shute’s ‘Landfall’, this correspondent has decided to focus on men who make a movie really fly. No, not... Continue reading
Posted May 20, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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Bailing Out
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TAPE 071 190985 The most important thing was to keep a cool head, and never let any sign of panic get to the other chaps. We’d all been trained what to do – the bailing out bit, not so much the parachute bit afterwards; for that all you had to... Continue reading
Posted May 20, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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Daddy, What Did You Do in the Great War?
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"There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't." Michael Cimino During my last year at school, Daddy bought the house in Sussex and based himself more regularly in Britain. It was, he said, 'his turn to take me on'... Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2024 at The Sleep Artist
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