News for Oct. 23, 2006

Jim Broadbent: the role of his life

10/23/06, 10:34 pm EST - Xoanon

Jim Broadbent is playing the campaigning peer who forgave the Moors murderers. James Rampton reports from the set of 'Longford'. Lord Longford thought that his epitaph should be "the outcast's outcast". And by the end of his long and controversial life, he had certainly attained that goal. For, try as he might, the crusading, yet unworldly, politician just couldn't keep out of the headlines. In 1971, the eccentric former cabinet minister published a report on the pornography industry. Having toured many of the country's seedier sex clubs for the purposes of research, he was given the derisive tabloid sobriquet of "Lord Porn". [More]