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Jimmy McGovern | BAFTA Screenwriters' Lecture Series

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Jimmy McGovern, one of the UK’s most celebrated television screenwriters, discusses his passion for people, his politics and what makes a great screenplay.

Sponsored by The JJ Charitable Trust.

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14 Comments

@eagle-kb3di 9 years ago

Jimmy is so down to earth and generously willing to share his experience of writing that he inspires me to do the same. I hope one day to be as successful as he is.

@callycatus 7 years ago

What a fabulous and honest man.. its no wonder he can write so wonderfully !!

@All-is-well3210 5 years ago

Brilliant! Really enjoyed that interview Jimmy is such a talented writer/story teller. The Street is outstanding.

@peanut2415 6 years ago

Such a great guy with incredible talent liverpool loves ye jimmy 👍

@HughJass1111 7 years ago

What a fantastic writer just finished watching The Street best thing I've seen in ages

@profdavidclark 8 years ago

Amazing writer, amazing man. Such a joy to watch this and learn. Thank you, Jimmy.

@JudiChristopher 9 years ago

Oh my gosh... I totally agree... in my book,
to this day (and I wrote this passage)... I
cry like a baby... One needs to cry with the
character ... Be one with the Character...

@terryb4972 4 years ago

Miranda Sawyer. A brilliant interviewer and certainly got the best out of Jimmy.

@jag5798 8 years ago

I know its the right dialog when I first get choked up and then intensify the words I would hate to hear next.

@shkodranalbi 1 day ago

He pronounces some big truths here. It makes you think: 'left' and 'right' are just fabricated categories to keep us divided. They might have made sense during the Cold War but now they are obsolete.

@crissieroserose 6 years ago

luv jimmy

@howardkoor2796 9 years ago

Thank you

@eagle-kb3di 9 years ago

But I doubt it

@ListenToBigFace 7 years ago

‘They thought I was doing it for the money, I’d have given the money away’

Didn’t though, did you?

‘All the Hillsborough families cheered when he killed a Sun journalist’

In the episode the character doesn’t kill a Sun journalist. He tries to and she gets away.