18 February 2016, The Tablet

Top billing; Great mind; Worth a listen; Open to all; Station to station; A lot from Hoey


 
Top billingMovie stars accepting awards regularly thank everyone from God to their parents, their partners and their co-stars. But Tom McCarthy, the director and co-writer of Spotlight, the film about The Boston Globe’s investigation into the cover-up of clerical abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston, chose last Sunday to pay tribute to British abuse survivor Peter Saunders in his Bafta acceptance speech. “I’ll give a shout out to Peter Saunders, a UK citizen and survivor, and the great work he is doing now in this country and at the Vatican,” McCarthy said while accepting the award for best original screenplay. “You are an inspiration to us all, quite truly.” He also commended “the courageous survivors who came forward and shared their stories with
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