Tony Klinger

I decided to take the unusual step of electronically publishing a version of a Paper I presented to an academic conference recently. I have done so as I meet so many people who have misconceptions about the purpose of Further and Higher Education in relation to the Creative Industries that it seems like a good [...]

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Last week the film composer Maurice Jarre died. He was 84 when he passed away, and it was many years since I worked with him. I can’t pretend to an intimate knowledge of the man, but I well remember his sparkling ability and Gallic charm.
The major film compositions of his career were the David Lean [...]

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This week I was interviewed for a book about Ted Lewis, the author who wrote the novel “Jack’s Return Home”, which was the basis for the film “Get Carter” starring Michael Caine, directed by Mike Hodges, which my late father, Michael Klinger, produced.
The interviewer / author for the book about Ted is a young journalist [...]

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Madonna’s bid to adopt a three-year-old girl called Mercy, failed in Malawi yesterday. The manner in which the global media reported this sad news was both inhumane and insensitive. Journalists maliciously enjoyed Madonna’s discomfort, relishing the fact that the legal authorities in little, feeble Malawi thwart this woman, who usually gets whatever she wants.
We [...]

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I have come over all Scottish. I spent the last few days in Scotland, staying in a place called Ballachulish, which is on the road by a beautiful loch. Situated not too far from Fort William and Oban.
Don’t ask me how to pronounce the names of anywhere in our northern neighbor. Suffice it to say [...]

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