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1 form y separately published work icon Mrs Davenport Noel Robinson , ( dir. Peter Duguid ) United Kingdom (UK) : ITV , 1970 21449010 1970 single work film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne Alan Seymour , ( dir. Peter Duguid ) United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1965 Z1361912 1965 single work film/TV satire crime

A Tory statesman is kidnapped by a young pop-music millionaire and shown his arrogance and guilt in scenes from his earlier life (Alan Seymour's description in a letter to Alrene Sykes, published in Australian Literary Studies 6.3, 1974, p. 286).

A contemporary review in the Times notes:

'Rampayne, aristocrat, soldier, diplomat, empire-builder, and now university eminence, is kidnapped and put on trial as a vicious bully by a young man who, as an uneducated, unsubmissive manager of pop groups, and a manipulator of public taste, represents the new world as effectively as Rampayne represents the past that is, only partially. The blacks on both sides are very black–Rampayne is a politically myopic bigot–but, as the case is put for our judgement, we feel that we ourselves could present both prosecution and defence with something closer to justice.'

Source: 'Blacker than Black', The Times, 11 November 1965, p.18.
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