Five go mad in Cumbria Jan. 26, 2007

In my view there are five films dying to be made surrounding Cumbria The Lake District. In fact Pandaemonium about the life of Coleridge and The Wordsworths has already been made. Beatrix Potter followed. Surely next will be something about the life of Alfred Wainwright – Blackburn fan, people disliker, Lake District sketcher and lover. Then there must be a film about the Jewish boys harboured here “in the most beautiful place imaginable” rescued from the horrors of concentration camps and the Second World War. Finally what about a film about “the giant with a single goal”, Thomas Clarkson who the Wordsworths were visiting when they discovered “the host of golden daffodils”. Clarkson almost single-handedly brought on the abolition of the slave trade, which cost him his life, and allowed William Wilberforce (and others) to finish the job.