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The Guardian reports that Donal MacIntyre is to return to the BBC, presenting a series of investigative programmes on Radio Five Live. The station will air two 10-part series of his show, with the second run of 10 likely to air this autumn. It will air on Sunday evenings between 7pm and 8pm from April 6.
MacIntyre's new show, negotiations for which were initially conducted by former Five Live controller Bob Shennan, will feature investigations and original stories. The show will fill the slot occupied by current affairs strand Five Live Report, which will come off air once MacIntyre's show starts. |
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The Sunday Telegraph Reports:THE DIFFICULT THING IS TO LEAVE WITH CLEAN HANDS`To make his first feature film, Donal MacIntyre built a relationship with one of Manchester's most notorious gangsters. He tells Marc Lee the risks - physical and moral: The first time Donal MacIntyre met the gangster Dominic Noonan - the subject of his first feature documentary - Noonan told him that his brother Dessie had been told to "whack" the filmmaker. MacIntyre retorted: "Well, he's not very good, is he?"He also threatened another crew member during the shooting of A Very British Gangster. When the producer, Sam Emmery, mentioned that he was from Holland, Noonan told him: "I killed a Dutchman once. Make sure you're not the second." "Sam was scared," says MacIntyre, "and he had good reason to be. Dessie was a hitman and a volatile crack addict. Very, very dangerous." |
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UNTAMED MALADY - As part of my investigations into the criminal underworld I met some of Manchester's feral teen's. These were among the most dangerous individuals I have ever met. It does not bode well for the future of our inner cities. The following are transcripts of my interviews with them in the Guardian. Patrick Butler, Guardian Society Editor, takes up the story. |
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Variety reports that Anywhere Road has acquired North American rights to the doc “A Very British Gangster,” about Dominic Noonan, a notorious leader of a powerful Blighty organized crime family who was openly gay and championed the working class. Noonan legally changed his name to Lattlay Fottfoy, an acronym for the family motto: “Look after those that look after you, fuck off those that fuck off you.” Directed by Donal MacIntyre, “Gangster” screened at Sundance in 2007. Netflix subsid Red Envelope snapped up DVD rights. Anywhere Road is an indie distrib whose recent releases include “Black Irish” and “Antonia.” |
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Watch out for a new eight part series looking at the people behind our surveilance society - the human face of Big Brother - I have been amazed at their stoires and hope to bring you a new insight with extraordinary footage and exclusive access with CCTV CIties coming to Five in April - watch the site for more information. |
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My current high priority campaign is for the provision of a trauma centre for miscarriage of justice victims. The following is an article I wrote for The New Statesman which gives the circumstances behind my involvement in this new campaign and my work with MOJO - The Miscarriages of Justice Organisation. “I spent a lifetime in jail for a murder I never committed`, he said. These were final moments in the short, lost life, of Stuart Gair, 44. A heart monitor pronounced him dead on the worn sitting room carpet where he lay. The noise from the defibrilllator blew the tolerances of the radio transmitter that was recording the last minutes of a man who had died, in truth, many years before his cardiac arrest.Sitting on a thread bare sofa, in a thread bare one bedroom flat, against the bleak surrounding walls – Stuart Gair, gave the impression that he had not left the prison that had been his home for nearly 12years.
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Donal MacIntyre reports on Britain's underworld for Mail on SUndayFor his cinematic debut, investigative TV reporter Donal MacIntyre spent three years shadowing a Mancunian gangster. He asks how crime lords like Dominic Noonan – armed robber and convict - can operate outside the normal rules of law The conditions, I'm reliably informed, are perfect for a bank job. The street, with its boarded-up windows and desolate back alleys littered with the residue of drunks and junkies, is still and quiet. The distant sound of a group of kids playing kick-about with a can somehow intensifies the silence. We pull over just before a junction.  Dominic Noonan at his brother's funeral Ahead of us, on the corner, is a Barclays bank. As we sit and wait, a dark-blue armoured security van pulls up right outside and a guard in a stab vest gets out. Crammed into the car beside me is Dominic Noonan. He is 5ft 11in tall and 18st, but it is not his physical presence I feel most; more his mental arithmetic. I turn to look at his fat bulldog face and shaven head. |
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