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‘Wicked Baby’: A Tale Retold

Posted in Art and Photography, Books, Profumo Affair, Updates, tagged , , , , , on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I was surprised – and flattered – to find my 2004 novella, Wicked Baby, listed in the bibliography to this book which accompanied the 2010 exhibition at London’s Mayor Gallery, Christine Keeler: My Life in Pictures. The catalogue includes photographs of Keeler – the iconic model at the centre of 1963′s Profumo Affair – and [...]

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‘Keeler’ at Theatre Royal, Brighton

Posted in History, Profumo Affair, Theatre, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Keeler is a touring play about 1963’s Profumo Affair, when a young model and showgirl, Christine Keeler, was revealed to have been involved with both Britain’s Minister for War, John Profumo, and a Russian naval attaché, Eugene Ivanov.

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Rambling Rose

Posted in Profumo Affair, Updates, Websites, Wicked Baby, tagged , , , , on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve recently set up yet another blog, this time on Tumblr – an informal affair, where I post snippets of the words, pictures and music that inspire me on a daily basis. This morning I was thrilled to discover this rare photograph of Christine Keeler in The Guardian, part of an exhibition dedicated to the iconic [...]

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Crimes and Immoralities

Posted in Books, History, Non-Fiction, Profumo Affair, Wicked Baby, tagged , , , on October 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Sir Ludovic Kennedy was born in Edinburgh in 1919, son of a naval officer. He was educated at Eton, where he played in a jazz band with Humphrey Lyttleton. After serving in World War II, Kennedy studied at Oxford, and later took up journalism and broadcasting. He married the dancer Moira Shearer in 1950, and [...]

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