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Whoever could have guessed that a Ken Loach film produced on a low budget, with no big stars, no sex, little violence, the wrong kind of bird and with a sad ending, could ever have resulted in a major classic, loved by millions. Such was the case with Kes, which resulted from the 1968 Barry Hines novel A Kestrel for a Knave. Kes was one of those rare films which concerned the working class and highlighted some of their life struggles and was enshrined in the life of Barnsley schoolboy, Billy Casper. The author was a falconer at the time, and now 55 years later Discovering Kesis a tribute to all things Kes from how the film came about, to its production, anecdotes, impact on society (then and now) and not least the tracking down of the filming and associated locations along with maps which enable like-minded people to follow in his footsteps. Contains an exclusive interview with director Ken Loach.

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David Glynne Fox was born in Carlton, Nottingham in 1948 and has been a lifelong naturalist and has practised falconry since his early teens. Having written many natural history and falconry related articles for several magazines, he is also the author of three published books. His first, Garden of Eagles - The Life and Times of a Falconer, was published in 1984. His second, Eagle Falconry - A Personal Perspective, was published in 2012 and his third, Artist Falconers - The Falconry and Raptor Art of David Morrison Reid-Henry and Ron David Digby, was published in 2017. He lectures widely on many wildlife subjects, using images from his own extensive collection of wildlife photographs and was for a few years, a visiting lecturer for the MSc degree in Biological Imaging and Photography at Nottingham University. He is a wildlife photographer with many years of experience, particularly concerning macro, or close-up photography of insects and wildflowers etc. He is a passionate historian of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, for which he has a doctorate, and also the Alamo of 1836: the Plains Indians of North America, and the Highland Clans of Scotland.He is also a co-opted member as eagle specialist on the United Kingdom Hawk Board and a past Chairman of the Midlands region of the British Falconers' Club and a consultant for the British Archives of Falconry. He was also responsible for forming The East Midlands Hawking Club in 1968 and the current British Falconers' Club Eagle Group. He has trained and flown many different species of birds of prey, including kestrels and herewith lies his fascination for anything to do with the film Kes, and the book from which it was derived, A Kestrel for a Knave. David still lives in Nottingham with his wife Gill and has two married children, Joanne and David, and for the last sixteen years, has been flying a male Golden Eagle named Star.

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