Red carpet treatment for young stars at film premiere

Oct 17 2007 by Alan Weston, Liverpool Daily Post

THE red carpet was rolled out for the young cast of a hard-hitting educational film about race hate which received its premiere at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall last night.

Senseless was written by local TV writer Maurice Bessman, and is the latest instalment of the Liverpool Culture Company’s It’s Not OK! programme.

Cllr Warren Bradley, leader of Liverpool City Council and deputy chairman of Liverpool Culture Company, said: “The Senseless launch comes at a particularly fitting time, given that October is Black History Month and 2007 marks the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.”

GEE WALKER will give the inaugural Anthony Walker memorial lecture in London tonight. Mrs Walker estab- lished the Anthony Walker Foundation to promote racial harmony after the murder of her son in Huyton, in July, 2005.

Other speakers will include Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, and Steve Sinnott, the Liverpool-born general secretary of the NUT.