Martin is a scriptwriter of plays and screenplays, including a biopic of Shakespeare, www.theshakespeareplays.com. He is an experienced journalist, writing on cinema for The Script Lab as well as on sport for LastWordSports.com/tennis and LastWordOnSports.com/Football.com. A poet, having written a collection of short poems, entitled Shards, extracts from which have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Martin is married with three children and lives in London, UK.
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William Goldman, the great screenwriter (he wrote Butch and Sundance among several classics), famously said of the film industry, “Nobody…
It was Lord Acton, a 19th century politician and historian, who coined the most famous phrase about power and its…
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They say bad things come in threes. Well, so do terrible things. This week saw the emergence, or at least…
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When Spurs and Chelsea meet in the FA Cup semi-final this weekend, the encounter will evoke memories of previous Wembley…
Another week, another calamity for a Manchester City goalkeeper. Admittedly, this week’s entry was not as bad as many of…
If nothing else, Seamus Coleman’s horrific (and for once the use of that word is entirely justified) leg-break in Ireland’s…
The Celtic nations of the British and Irish Isles – Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland –…
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