spender1
Someone once told me that Alan P had written a play (I think for Radio or TV) in which a veteran International Brigader who went back to Spain in the late 1970s (after Franco's death). A TV production team accompanies him in order to make a documentary. They visit various villages and battle sites but the man either cannot recall anything at all or at best gets everything wrong. No-one they ask can remember him, and all deny that the Brigaders ever visited the vicinity. Meanwhile, the subject spends a great deal of time and money in bars and brothels, and the whole enterprise ends in farce. It turns out that the claim to be a 'volunteer for liberty' was fraudulent. The ex-vet had gone too far, and whereas before he had never had to buy his own pint in the Labour Club and elsewhere, he now became the best-known pariah in Tyneside...
I've tried to trace this item in every AP web page which seemed promising, with no result. Can any member help?
I've tried to trace this item in every AP web page which seemed promising, with no result. Can any member help?