1 November 2013
Dame Judi Dench is already being spoken about as an Oscar contender for her latest film Philomena, released today. But don’t tell that to Martin Sixsmith, the ex-BBC journalist whose book inspired the film, and who is played by Steve Coogan as the journalist who helps an Irish woman look for the child she was forced to give up for adoption.
“We mustn’t talk about Oscars, we mustn’t jinx it,” Sixsmith tells me. Sixsmith’s next project is a 25-part epic series for Radio 4 about the history of psychology and psychiatry starting in April. When Sixsmith lost his job as a New Labour spin doctor, he did a psychology degree in 2002. “I did it when I fell out with Tony Blair, or rather Tony Blair fell out with me,” he says.
