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Unreliable memories and crime writing for TV

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AutorSimon Booker
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UNRELIABLE MEMORIES AND CRIME
WRITING FOR TV
Simon Booker
Just so we are clear, I am not an academic, or a philosopher, or (thank God)
a politician. I am an author and screenwriter. For many years, I have written
tv drama for the bbc and other companies in the uk and the United States,
but I do not speak for the bbc or any other company, just for myself.
My partner Melanie McGrath writes a series of wonderful crime novels
set in the Arctic. But I want to begin with a personal memory of the day
Melanie and I witnessed a crime in London: an attempted murder outside
our apartment. I will then talk a little about how memory is unreliable, how
that unreliability can influence what we write, and how what we write based
on our highly fallible memories can influence how we collectively view the
past; which, in turn, can influence the present.
So, six years ago, one sunny spring afternoon in London, I was working
in my office at home. Melanie was in her office, on other side of the wall. It
was a normal day in a quiet residential neighbourhood. It was around 4:00
p.m., the children were coming out of school making their usual noise in the
street below. Suddenly, I heard a sound outside, three floors below. I looked
out of the window and saw a man being chased by another man. Both were
in their late twenties or early thirties. I did not focus on the first man, but on
the second: the man chasing him. He had black hair, he was of Mediterranean

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