Ronan Bennett ‘Top Boy was special to me... I poured it all into the scripts’
almost 5 years in The guardian
The screenwriter finished series two of his east London drama as his wife, Georgina, was dying. Then Channel 4 cancelled it. Now, thanks to Drake and Netflix, it’s back
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When you’re writing, everything goes into the mix.
At one o’clock in the morning, in the Homerton hospital in Hackney, east London, our daughter, Molly, was born. It was a sweltering night, the hottest of the year, the late August bank holiday in 2001. A couple of hours later, I left the maternity unit, walked along some corridors, descended the stairs and passed into reception. I heard shouts and threats. Two groups of angry youths were screaming into each other’s faces. They pushed and shoved while visitors and staff did their best to stay out of the way and safe. A few punches were thrown, but the punches were, like the confrontation itself, disorganised and random. I steered myself through the melee and exited to the car park, where I saw a shirtless young man hooked up to a drip, dressings on wounds on his arms and shoulder, trading shoves with an antagonist. Continue reading...
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