Tom McNab
Tom has experienced success as an Olympic coach, prize-winning novelist and as the Technical Director of the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire. One of the world’s leaders in sport, he has coached international athletes such as Greg Rutherford, the British Olympic Bobsleigh team and England’s silver medal-winning squad in Rugby’s 1991 World Cup. In that same year, he was awarded the British Coach of the Year. As National Athletics Coach, Tom created many successful initiatives, including the national decathlon programme, which produced Daley Thompson.
Tom has written several best-selling novels, including number one best-seller Flanagan’s Run and in 1982 won the Scottish Novelist of the Year Award. A commentator for ITV and Channel 4, he has been a freelance journalist for the The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Times and The Independent.
He has written both radio plays and stage plays. This is his first collection of plays to be published.
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First published in the UK in 2019 by Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.
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Foreword © 2019 Jenny Lee
Introduction © 2019 Tom McNab
1936: Berlin © 2019 Tom McNab
Orwell on Jura © 2019 Tom McNab
Whisper in the Heart © 2019 Tom McNab
Cover images courtesy of ATTIC Theatre Company
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ISBNs
978-1-912430-11-6 (print)
978-1-912430-12-3 (ebook)
Foreword
I met Tom in 1992, in the BBC when we were rehearsing Winning, his play for Radio 4, starring Brian Cox. I was struck by the colour and humour in his writing and the ease with which he communicated the world of the play. We became friends, I read Flanagan’s Run, and from time to time he came to see the work of my theatre company, the ATTIC. My policy was to develop new writing, as well as revive neglected classics, and we were the resident company in Wim...
