Left Field on Film

Left Field: The film

Brian Eno interview

Waterstones book launch, 5 May 2016

Craig Murray at Left Field Waterstones launch

Miss Sarajevo 

Miss Sarajevo 2 

Help album; Dream a Little Dream

Pavarotti & Friends

The Healing Drum

Dodgy, Mostar Keep Smiling

Rock the Casbah 

LEFT FIELD: slideshow

                                                                                     
further films to follow shortly (with Amir Amirani and music from Eugene Skeef, Deicola Neves, Vanessa Lucas-Smith, Peter Wilson)

To buy Left Field - The memoir of a lifelong Activist, by David Wilson go to Waterstones, Amazon, WH Smith, Penguin Books and most good retailers. Best offer to date is from Public Reading Rooms at £13 including p&p

Julie Christie and Brian Eno's legs at Downing Street

Buy 'Left Field' on Amazon or at any Waterstones store but it's cheapest at WH Smith

Kieran Conlon's film of the 'Left Field' Waterstones launch is now in production. Talks, music and interviews. These include ex-ambassador and whistleblower Craig Murray with whom I share that experience, film director Amir Amirani, (Director of "We are Many") who will be speaking alongside me in July at the South Bank Centre and at WOMAD and of course musicians Eugene Skeef, Vanessa Lucas-Smith, Deicola Neves and Peter Wilson. As you will see, what an amazing performance they gave. Craig Murray 'brought the house down' with his Julie Christie/Brian Eno leg story and there is a great interview with Tiffany Drake, who I hadn't met for 20 years and 4 kids later. Adele Drake went home and sent me this sad and astonishing photo of Mostar. I am very moved by the number of emails and text messages I'm receiving from those of you already enjoying the book.

"I am so elated to have read Left Field. I feel like a child at the fountain of narratives. David Wilson is truly one of the greatest storytellers I have ever met or read. For me he is right up there with Alice Walker, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Mandla Langa and Ariel Dorfman (Writing The Deep South) in his ability to enchant the reader while telling about harrowing and politically charged life experiences." Eugene Skeef

Left Field: THE FILM

This is the collage image used for 'Left Field' by Waterstones

Left Field - 'a study of humanity'

Left Field now on sale

Left Field can now be pre-ordered from Amazon , 

also:   Penguin Books, Waterstones, and iTunes

What they say about 'Left Field'

Sir Tom Stoppard - 'David Wilson has lived a life and a half. I was proud to play a minor role in War Child, an organisation in which David was inspirational. The broken world needed people like David then; it still does and it always will.'

Brian Eno - 'This is an excellent and inspiring book. David is an adventurer and a freethinker, who, despite the best efforts of an education designed to equip him for obedient anonymity, somehow did something truly useful with his life. His stubborn and yet self-effacing commitment to his ideals carried him through many daunting situations, and his sense of humour kept him able to see the funny side.'

Dorothy Byrne, Head of Channel 4 TV News and Current Affairs - 'What a life this man has led.'

David Hencke, former Guardian journalist & senior reporter at Exaro - 'This is the work of a determined guy who is prepared to expose fraud and injustice wherever he finds it.'

Mandla Langa, author of The Lost Colours of the Chameleon, winner of 2009 Commonwealth Prize - 'David Wilson is a national treasure.'

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Watch Brian Eno's interview with David here.

LEFT FIELD talks, summer 2016
South Bank Centre, 2 July

contact: david at davidwilson.org.uk