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Former investigative journalist and screenwriter of the UK’s biggest TV premiere of 2020, The Salisbury Poisonings, Declan Lawn, speaks to David Whelan about his transition from journalism, the unexpected success of his screen writing debut and his upcoming feature film.
Not expecting Lawn to draw to much of a link between his upbringing in Northern Ireland and his co-writing of the sensational fact-based drama about the poising of a Russian spy in a sleepy English town, which sparked an unprecedented national emergency, I’m surprised when he tells me that his experiences in Northern Ireland heavily shaped his approach.
“Espionage, spooks and secret agents have cast a long shadow over the place that we’re [we being Lawn and his writing partner Adam Patterson, also from Northern Ireland] from over last 30 to 40 years and we endeavoured to tell the story of the everyday heroism of those who just got on with it,” explains Lawn.
“We were focused on those who kept within the rails r