He has brought Black, gay and working-class experiences to a massive audience " as writer and director of countless plays and films, and creator of the pioneering TV show Metrosexuality Rikki Beadle-Blair was just 15 when he caught the attention of a film director. It was 1976 and the Bermondsey Lamp Post, the experimental, anarchic south-east London free school he attended, had financially collapsed and been shut do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM on May 20, 2021