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Kes

March 2022

  • All the while Smith circles the action … Jake Dunn, Nishla Smith and Harry Egan in Kes.

    Kes review – superb poetic evocation of much-loved tale

    This is a bold and adventurous version of Barry Hines’s story about a boy finding respite in nature

January 2020

  • (FILE) TV And Film Director Tony Garnett Dies Aged 83 TV And Film Director Tony Garnett At The Southbank In London<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 13, 2020: TV And Film Director Tony Garnett Dies Aged 83. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 23: TV &amp; Film Director Tony Garnett poses for a portrait at The Southbank on June 23, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Guy Smallman/Getty Images)

    Tony Garnett obituary

    Producer of film and television drama whose collaborations with Ken Loach included Cathy Come Home and Kes

November 2019

  • David Bradley stars in Kes as the northern schoolboy who finds and trains a kestrel chick.

    From the Guardian archive
    Kes reviewed: drawing the curtains on Barnsley - archive, 1969

    20 November 1969 Kes is about going to school and growing up, but it is also about a system that kills men’s spirits, and the ways in which they try to survive

October 2019

  • Hayley Squires and Dave Johns in I, Daniel Blake

    Ranked
    Ken Loach – all his films ranked!

    From his groundbreaking dramas of the 60s, through the early-90s resurgence to the unexpected box office successes of recent years, we assess the director’s output

July 2019

  • Some of the films in Mark Kermode’s list, clockwise from top: Kes, The Wizard of Oz, Mary Poppins, The Kid, ET, The Breadwinner, Bend it Like Beckham and The Red Turtle in the background.

    Mark Kermode chooses 25 of the best films for children

    From early animation to foreign-language gems via all-time classics, a range of movies to whet budding cinematic appetites

June 2019

  • Riot police confront striking miners at Orgreave in 1984

    Kes author's lost play about miners' strike to be staged for first time

    Barry Hines’s After the Strike, about the violence at Orgreave, lay untouched for 35 years

February 2018

  • David Bradley and Colin Welland in Ken Loach’s Kes.

    50 years after Kes, we need someone else to give Barnsley wings

    Helen Whitehouse
    Ken Loach’s film gave towns like mine the kind of representation they still desperately need, writes the journalist Helen Whitehouse

December 2017

  • The League of Gentlemen

    As The League of Gentlemen shows, there’s little as funny as grim despair

    David Barnett
    The privileged may not get it, but finding laughter in the dark comes easily to those of us who grew up in northern, working-class homes, says the arts writer David Barnett

September 2017

  • Dave Simpson

    Let’s shout it from the dales: here’s why Yorkshire is the best

    Dave Simpson
    Part of the the county has been named as the happiest place in Britain. To music and football writer Dave Simpson, that’s no surprise

October 2016

  • Actor Dai Bradley who played Billy Casper in the 1969 film ‘Kes’. Reunited with a kestrel in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.<br>F79308 Actor Dai Bradley who played Billy Casper in the 1969 film ‘Kes’. Reunited with a kestrel in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

    Kes’s David Bradley: ‘I can’t watch the end of the film. It’s just too much’

  • Head shot of of film director Ken Loach

    Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’

July 2016

  • Tony Garnett, writer, producer and actor. He's written a memoir called "The day the music died"

    Tony Garnett: The backstreet abortion that destroyed my family

    Cathy Come Home and Kes producer Tony Garnett is behind much of Britain’s best screen drama since the mid-60s. Only recently did the truth hit home – the secret of his success came from the traumatic loss of both parents when he was five, after a botched abortion

March 2016

  • Loughborough Colleges AFC football team 1962-1963, winners of UAU Championship, FA Centenary Trophy, Leicestershire Senior Cup Back row: Ted Powell, Jeff Jepson, Bob Wilson, Keith Blunt, Barry Hines, Dario Gradi. Front row: Brian French, Peter Flann, Alan Craddock, Alan Bradshaw (captain), Chuck Wise.

    Brief letters
    Loughborough team photo with Barry Hines is a bit of football history

  • The late Barry Hines

    When Manchester United knocked on Barry Hines’ door

  • David Bradley as Billy Casper in Kes, the 1969 film adaptation of Barry Hines’ novel A Kestrel for a Knave

    A Kestrel for a Knave is a fitting parable for modern times

  • Barry Hines in 2004 in his home town, Hoyland, where he taught at Kirk Balk school.

    Letters: Barry Hines’s words for the children of his community

  • Letter: Barry Hines made me want to become a writer

  • Ken Loach on Barry Hines: ‘His ear for the dialect and its comedy was pitch perfect’

  • From the Guardian archive
    Barry Hines 1970 interview - from the archive

  • Barry Hines, author of book behind Kes, dies

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