Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit review – the amazing real life story of Shuggie Bain is ruined by Alan Yentob
Nov 14, 2022
3 minutes
If you ever want to see Alan Yentob uncomfortable, bung him in a sweet shop. This was the takeaway message, although not the one intended, of the latest episode of Imagine. Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit (BBC One) was meant to be a profile of Stuart; an extraordinary man who spent a decade distilling his childhood into an 1,800-page manuscript called . After trimming it down, the novel – his debut – sold 1.5m copies, won
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