Just watched Ken Loach being interviewed on BBC 4.

He is inspirational and he still has time to be Dan Dare.

Ken Loach- Please Be Dan Dare!

Ken, you might not like his conservative (with a small c) outlook,

his body language may change

watching your films but (for one production only)

can you wear his hat and take control,

save a million unemployed kids,

steer the craft, be Dan Dare and take Digby from Wigan

to something better than this?

So Ken, before you squint through the camera lens,

please take up Dan’s mantle, if only for me,

aged seven-and-three-quarters in Jarrow,

think Billy Casper without the kestrel,

afraid of the dark and Tories me and me da hated.

Please save us

from these posh boys that make me so angry I have to lose myself

in Frank Hampson’s drawings of Dan leading his crew

against the Mekon: we need you to be Dan Dare,

“Quiet, please. Roll camera. Action.”

Tom Kelly

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