Tag Archives: 80s

The Girl From The Black Country: An interview with Julie Walters

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Samira Ahmed

UPDATE May 19th 2014: Julie Walters was awarded the 2014 BAFTA fellowship last night for her lifetime achievement in acting. In the interview I did with her in 2011 she spoke with real passion about her fear for whether a … Continue reading →

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Michael Gove on educational elitism — a flashback to Oxford 1988

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Samira Ahmed

  Hearing the attacks for alleged “elitism” made on Education Secretary Michael Gove’s  plans to make the National Curriculum of English state schools more academically rigorous, I remembered something he wrote about that very subject 23 years ago, in January … Continue reading →

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From Ealing to Four Lions: How to fund a great British film.

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Samira Ahmed

BAFTA Nominations were out today. When I remarked on Twitter yesterday that the Golden Globe winning, now much BAFTA nominated, Oscar hopeful The King’s Speech had been funded via the scrapped UK Film Council I was flagging up the difficulty … Continue reading →

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Why I’m a Cover Girl.

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Samira Ahmed

Listening to R2’s ‘Sounds of the 60s” this morning, I realised to my shame that I had no memory of ever before hearing the original Beach Boys’ version of “Break Away.” Why? Because in the mid 80s I discovered the … Continue reading →

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