EXCLUSIVE: Showtime’s Fire Island helmer Myles Clohessy is directing a late-19th century Western feature.
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He was the man responsible for communicating the policies of Tony Blair's New Labour government to the public in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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Born in Keighley in 1957, the author and broadcaster has fond memories of the beautiful scenery around his West Yorkshire home and a childhood of following Burnley FC, Keighley Cougars and Yorkshire cricket.
And, as he tells The Northern Agenda podcast, he might still be living in the area were it not for a serious injury that befell his father, a vet who'd moved to Yorkshire for work from Scotland before Alastair was born.
Listen to the full interview on The Northern Agenda podcast below
"He was vaccinating some piglets and this sow attacked him," he recalls of the incident, which happened when he was about 10. "It battered him up against a wall, he ended up quite badly injured."
His father's injuries were such that he was forced to sell his Keighley practice and join the Ministry of Agriculture, meaning the family was moved to Leicester. These days Alastair still often returns to the North but generally to watch Burnley.
After going into journalism he ended up becoming official spokesman for Tony Blair and spending several years running the Labour Prime Minister's communications. Now, away from the political frontline, he's still a major player thanks in part to his hit podcast The Rest is Politics, which came to Harrogate for
EXCLUSIVE: Showtime’s Fire Island helmer Myles Clohessy is directing a late-19th century Western feature.
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