![]() ‘One of the happiest memories of my career’. I’d lost my Catholicism and then I lost my conservatism.” Starting at the bottom of television, he graduated to current affairs series World in Action before moving into fiction and cinema. “My parents were conservatives, but what I experienced on the lower deck changed all that for ever. It was horrendous.”Īfter school, he spent two eye-opening years doing national service on the lower deck of a navy minesweeper, visiting “every disgusting fishing port in the UK”. This is a childish fantasy.’ And our parents sent us back. “But they came back and said, ‘No, this is untrue. When his parents discovered what was going on, the school investigated. “I was tampered with, but not in any really serious way,” he says. ![]() He claims his boarding school in Bath, run by the Irish Christian Brothers, was a place of corporal punishment and sexual abuse. Hodges was raised a Catholic, but lost his faith at a young age, he says. He’s managed to get a cohort of people around him who really are dangerous.” The reason they’ve got Trump as president is because of the fundamentalist religious people backing him, irrespective of the fact that he’s a totally immoral man. “The worst aspect of America has been the way Christianity and capitalism are now hand in hand. “We were building an edifice that was very vulnerable, and people weren’t paying attention.” In the US especially, Black Rainbow’s warnings seem to have come to pass. “When I wrote it more than 30 years ago, it seemed to me society was in a very dodgy situation,” says Hodges.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |