Martin Sixxmith (September 24, 1954 ) is a British journalist, author, and radio / television presenter, mainly on the BBC . He worked as a consultant to the Labor government [2] . According to Sixsmith’s book “The Lost Child of Philomena Lee” , the film “ Philomena ” was shot in 2013 .
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Early years
Born in the city of Warrington , (county of Cheshire ). He studied at the with an in-depth study of the Russian language , then at , Harvard and the Sorbonne . Trained in Leningrad . He taught Slavic at Harvard; wrote a dissertation on Russian poetry . From 2002 to 2007, he studied psychology at Birbeck University of London and at London City University .
Career and Creativity
Service career
Since 1980, he worked as a correspondent for the BBC in Moscow; broadcast reports during the presidency of Gorbachev and Yeltsin , covering the restructuring and collapse of the USSR . Then he was transferred to Poland where he made reports on the Solidarity movement. During his first term as Bill Clinton, he worked in Washington .
In 1997, he left the BBC to work in the newly elected government of Tony Blair , where he received the post of Director of Communications of the Department of Social Protection. After a short break (in December 2001), he returned to public service at the UK Department of Transportation [3] . He left the service after the scandal with - Advisor to the Secretary of Transport . Sixxmith incurred the displeasure of the government , but after trying to dismiss him, he was apologized and compensated [3] .
Creativity
Many expected that after the scandal Sixxmith would write memories of his experience in the civil service, but instead wrote a novel about the immediate political future called Spin ( English Spin ( slang ) - PR ), which was published in 2004. The authorship of the novel indirectly led to work as a consultant for the satirical television series "The Thick of Events " [4] .
Sixmith’s second novel, “I Heard Lenin Laugh”, was published in 2006 [5] [6] .
In 2006, at the invitation of Channel 4, the BBC prepared a series of programs about Russian poetry, literature and art under the general title “Against Silence” ( English Challenging the Silence ).
In 2007, he prepared the material “The Litvinenko File” ( The Litvinenko File ) on the confrontation between the Kremlin and Russian oligarchs in exile.
In 2008, he collaborated with the BBC on the set of two documentaries on the legacy of the KGB in today's Russia; prepared a documentary film for the Air Force, “Through the Snowy Streets of St. Petersburg” ( The Snowy Streets of St. Petersburg ) about artists and writers who fled from the USSR.
In 2009, he published the documentary The Lost Child of Philomena Lee on the forced separation of mother and child by nuns from an Irish monastery in the 1950s and subsequent attempts by mother and child to reunite [7] [8] .
In 2010, he wrote a study called Putin's Oil on the energy wars of Russia and their consequences for Russia and the world.
In 2011, he prepared a series of programs for the 4th channel of the BBC Radio on the history of Russia “In Russia: the Wild East” [9] . In the same year, the book “Russia: The 1000-Year-Old History of the Wild East” ( English Russia, a 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East ) was published by the Publishing . He continued his work as a consultant to the British series “ The Thick of It ” (in the Russian translation of “The thick of events ”), as well as the Oscar-nominated film “ In the Loop ” (in the Russian translation of “ In the Loop ”).
In 2013, the film “ Philomena ” (directed by Stephen Frears , starring Judy Dench and Steve Coogan in the role of Sixsmith) was shot from the book “The Lost Child of Philomena Lee”. The film was nominated for an Oscar in four categories.
In 2014, he prepared a series of programs on the 4th channel of the BBC Radio on the history of psychology and psychiatry: "In search of ourselves."
In 2015, he made a BBC television documentary, “Lost Children of Ireland,” about the fate of thousands of children whom the Irish Catholic Church took away from their mothers and sent them abroad [10] .
In Russian
An article by M. Sixmith, “An attempt on Lenin by Fanny Kaplan” [11] , was published in Russian.
Personal life
Has four children. He currently resides in London . Cheers for Liverpool Football Club; attended all the finals of the European Champions League in which this club played .
Notes
- ↑ Freebase data upload - Google .
- ↑ Interview with Armando Iannucci , at bbc.co.uk. Retrieved January 18, 2007.
- ↑ 1 2 "These Unfortunate Events" - report of the House of Commons Select Committee on Public Administration .
- ↑ "Secrets and lies: Martin Sixsmith on the trail of a boy ripped from his mother", The Independent , September 26, 2009 . Accessed February 28, 2016
- ↑ Sixsmith unspun unopened (June 28, 2006). Date of contact May 31, 2017.
- ↑ Lewycka, Marina Spinning the Soviets (July 8, 2006). Date of contact May 31, 2017.
- ↑ Sixsmith, Martin. The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a Fifty Year Search . - Macmillan, August 11, 2011 .-- ISBN 978-0-230-74427-1 .
- ↑ Sixsmith, Martin . The Catholic church sold my child , The Guardian (19 September 2009).
- ↑ Russia: The Wild East . Accessed August 12, 2011.
- ↑ Ireland's Lost Babies - 'a devastatingly powerful piece of work that will move you to tears one moment and blood-boiling outrage the next' - Independent.ie . Date of appeal September 15, 2015.
- ↑ Brenton, 2017 , Martin Sixxmith. "The attempt on Lenin, committed by Fanny Kaplan", p. 214.
Literature
- Martin Sixxmith "An attempt on Lenin, committed by Fanny Kaplan." ( Anthony Brenton. Historical Inevitability? Key Events of the Russian Revolution (Collection of articles) = Tony Brenton. Historically Inevitable ?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution. - M .: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2017. - 414 p. - ISBN 978-5 -91671-757-0 . ), P. 214
Links
- Sixsmith, Martin on the Internet Movie Database