HURST ON FILM

News just in from the Brian Desmond Hurst Legacy Site:

AN IRISHMAN CHAINED TO THE TRUTH Brain Desmond Hurst

RTE's superb radio documentary tells the almost improbable story of Brian Desmond Hurst woven through a meeting between Allan Esler Smith (who looks after the Hurst Estate) and Stephen Wyatt, an award-winning writer for radio, television and theatre. Stephen had directed the 1973 Cambridge Footlights Revue and as an aspiring writer was looking for work in the mid 1970s. What are the chances of Stephen sitting with Brian in the mid 1970s to help Hurst write his memoirs?

The new book, Hurst on Film by Caitlin Smith and Stephen Wyatt will be published in February 2021 and reveal more. In the meantime, you can listen again to this audio treat here. Includes rare recordings of Brian speaking.

I'm delighted that the memoirs are finally going to be published.