Has the Brexit campaign – and the division it sowed – undone the overwhelming sense of pride in British culture brought about by the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony? Writer Frank Cottrell Boyce weighs in.
I love being a writer. Never wanted to be anything else.
When I get into a conversation with a stranger on a train or in the barber’s, and it gets to the bit where they say, “And what do you do?” I feel like I’m boasting when I admit, “Actually I’m a writer.” Then … the hammer blow …
“Written anything I might have heard of?”
And the only possible answer is a muttered, “Excuse me, I think this is my stop.”
Until 2012. After that my answer was “I was the writer who helped Danny Boyle create the Olympic Opening Ceremo...Keep reading on The Guardian
I love being a writer. Never wanted to be anything else.
When I get into a conversation with a stranger on a train or in the barber’s, and it gets to the bit where they say, “And what do you do?” I feel like I’m boasting when I admit, “Actually I’m a writer.” Then … the hammer blow …
“Written anything I might have heard of?”
And the only possible answer is a muttered, “Excuse me, I think this is my stop.”
Until 2012. After that my answer was “I was the writer who helped Danny Boyle create the Olympic Opening Ceremo...Keep reading on The Guardian