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About me

I'm 792 months old and next year, I'll be starting school. I'm passionate about film so let me start by listing

My Ten Favorite Movies:

1 Apocalypse Now 2 Schindler's List 3 American Beauty 4 Pulp Fiction 5 A Beautiful Mind 6 North By Northwest 7 Lost In Translation 8 American Graffiti 9 Quills 10 Blow Up

And My Ten Favorite Artists:
1 Francis Bacon 2 Vincent Van Gogh 3 David Hockney 4 Peter Blake 5 Roy Lichstenstein 6 Andy Warhol 7 Monet 8 Renoir 9 Manet 10 Turner

And Now (Before I Go) For My Ten Favorite Writers:
1 Henry Miller 2 Arthur Conan-Doyle 3 Winston Churchill 4 Milovan Djilas 5 Norman Mailer 6 Frederick Forsyth 7 Pat Barker 8 Wilfred Owen 9 George Orwell 10 John Wyndham

I've always wondered (If asked) what my top fifty records would be. I'll make a start!

1 Out of Time, Chris Farlowe 2 Under My Thumb, Rolling Stones 3 Summer In The City, Lovin' Spoonful 4 Up On The Roof, (Carol King/Kenny Lynch) 5 You Make Me Feel So Young, Frank Sinatra 6 Hoochie Coochie Man, Muddy Waters 7 Dock Of The Bay, Otis Redding 8 Son Of A Preacher Man, Dusty Springfield 9 Panthea, Ephraim Lewis 10 Cushie Butterfield, Owen Brannigan 11 Amsterdam, Jack Lukeman 12 As Tears Go By, Marianne Faithful 13 The Girl from Ipanema, Astrud Gilberto 14 Respect, Aretha Franklin 15 Blowin' In The Wind, Bob Dylan 16 Take Me to the River Al Green 17 I Tawt I Taw A Putty Tat, Mel Blanc 18 Watermelon Man, Jon Hendricks 19 Woodstock, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 20 Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell 21 Young Americans, David Bowie 22 A Day In The Life, The Beatles 23 Moonshadow, Cat Stevens 24 La Mer, Charles Trenet 25 Non, je ne regrette rien, Edith Piaf 26 The Click Song, Miriam Makeba 27 Money for Nothing, Dire Straits 28 We Didn't Start the Fire, Billy Joel 29 Baby Please Don't Go, Them 30 Do You Mind? Anthony Newley 31 Funky Cold Madina, Tone Loc 32 Warm San Franciscan Nights, Eric Burdon & War 33 Spill The Wine, Eric Burdon & War 34 I Am The Walrus, The Beatles 35 Living for the City, Stevie Wonder 36 It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow, Al Bowlly 37 Layla, Derek & The Dominoes 38 Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin 39 Itchycoo Park, Small Faces 40 Proud To Be A Honky Woman, Vinegar Joe 41 Foxey Lady, Jimmy Hendrix 42 Who Are You, The Who 43 Symphony No.1 Finlandia, Jean Sibelius 44 Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin 45 Victory At Sea, RCA Symphony Orchestra 46 Summertime from Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin 47 Beat Out That Rythm On The Drum, Pearl Bailey 48 Take The "A", Duke Ellington 49 Virginia Plain, Roxy Music 50 Hail To The Chief, United States Air Force Concert Band

My work

Lez Barstow graduated in 1968, after studying Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. Following, he taught Art and Design.

Whilst teaching, he completed a number of courses including an advanced course in Film and Photography and in 1973 a full-time course in Film and Television at London’s Hornsey College of Art.

Lez found teaching rather claustrophobic and he left the profession in 1974 to take a Post Graduate Course in Vocational Guidance. In 1975, he was appointed as Information Officer- first with Salford Careers Service and from 1979 with the UK's Manpower Services Commission in London and Sheffield. During his time with the MSC, he worked as a Writer, Editor and Executive Producer on some innovative and award winning educational programmes and print projects. He was privileged to work with some outstanding writers, directors, crews and performers, many of whom such as Billy Connolly, Pamela Stephenson and Judy Finnegan were to become household names in UK broadcast television.

In 1984, Lez decided to pursue a career as an independent Writer, Producer and Director. One of his first clients was the UK Ministry of Defence and over the years, he worked with some of Europe’s leading companies: British Airways, Sony Music and Central Television, to name just a few. He wrote, produced and directed around one-hundred and fifty programmes ranging from education and animation to music promos, commercials and corporates. In 1997, Lez decided to take time out to write and he moved to Dublin where, identifying a gap in the market, he started up a screenwriter’s agency. This became his inspiration for Talent-Channel (A talent website and Internet TV channel) for which he found an investor in 2004, when it became TalentGold.com.

Since returning to the UK, Lez has devoted himself exclusively to developing new writing talent, first through the Manchester Writers Meetup Group and more recently through the Lez Barstow Agency.