Gordon Bennett!!! Politics taking over the Art
Who’d have thought?…. Gunpowder featured the most violent and visceral scenes of execution ever screened on primetime television. This star- studded BBC1 drama about the November 5 plot was not so much brutal as psychotic in its quest for historical accuracy. It might seem hard to understand the need for this exceptionally graphic, nine-minute sequence… until you realise that the writer, Northern Irish novelist Ronan Bennett, is a Left-winger … Continue reading