Scum - Roy Minton

  A NOVEL BASED ON THE TV PLAY BANNED BY THE BBC

Publisher: Arrow Books

Number: 0099192705

Publishing Year: 1979

Printing: First

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BANNED

Rox Minton's controversial television play SCUM was commissioned by the BBC, filmed, advertised, then suddenly withdrawn a short time before it was due to be screened.

The decision to veto caused violent reactions - from those who supported the censorship as well as those who felt outraged by the Establishment's ban.

Now Roy Minton has re-written the plays as a novel: and, for the first time, the public has the chance to make up its own mind.

It is an uncompromising, often shocking and outspoken comment on the bleak, brutal world of a Borstal: a powerful story that tells the truth about the boys labelled 'Scum' - and the men they call 'Screws'!

A Major film of SCUM is planned for the near future.

The Plough Boy - Tony Parker

AT THIS SPOT, IN 1953, A MURDER WAS COMMITTED. THIS IS THE TRUE STORY OF THAT MURDER AND THE TRIAL

ARROW BOOKS 104

LONDON, UK

FIRST PRINTING 1969

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HUTCHINSON & Co 1965

At Clapham Common, on the evening of July 2nd, 1953, a murder was committed. Charged with stabbing to death a young boy in a gang-fight, Michael Davies stood trial at the Old Bailey and was sentenced to death. His appeals to the Court of Criminal Appeal and the House of Lords were dismissed. He spent in all 92 days in the condemned cell until he was reprieved by the Home Secretary who commuted his sentence to one of life imprisonment. Of this, he served seven years; now back in society, he is married and has settled down, leading a life of quiet respectability. But Davies maintains, and has always maintained, that he was innocent.

Tony Parker examines his claim, and how it came about that Michael Davies was found guilty.

Too Late To Mend - Thomas Rainham

A story of teenage thuggery in London's East End

ARROW BOOKS 502

FIRST ARROW EDITION 1958

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HURST & BLACKETT LTD 1957

Smithy was a young thug who absorbed every bad influence and rejected every good one; at his school in London's East End he was in a special class for 'incorrigibles'-a class of hoodlums as ignorant and vicious as himself. When he leaves at fifteen, his sinister values are already formed. All he wants is easy money to spend on clothes and girls. From petty theft and fraud he graduates to robbery with violence; then, on the eve of his seventeenth birthday, comes disaster-he is involved in murder! Here is the horrifying story of young gangsters told with superb skill and deep feeling; you may dislike Smithy, but you will certainly not forget him.

Sex And The Intelligent Teenager - Colin Wilson

ARROW BOOKS 873

LONDON, UK

1ST PRINTING 1966

The thesis of this highly original and closely reasoned book is that where sex is concerned we are still living in a 'pre-Coper-nician' era-believing that the sun goes round the earth. Yet never has it been more important that people should think logically on the subject. In a time when almost every teenager has a great deal of 'sexual knowledge' by the age of 14, it is surely imperative to present the problem-as it is presented here-both honestly and clearly.