A mere four days after former Prime Minister Keir Starmer was forced to resign in shame, having squandered a generational mandate, the book responsible for shining a light on the dark money and sabotage that enabled the McSweeney / Mandelson / Starmer Labour Together faction to seize control of the Labour Party has been signed up for a production deal that will see the story become a multi series audio drama, broadcast in 2027.
“By reimagining these crucial accounts of contemporary political history as dramas, Marximum Volume will add colour and verve to an already powerful tale.”
OR Books commented: “The Candidate is the authority on the democratic mass movement that, against the odds, brought Jeremy Corbyn to power in the Labour Party. The Fraud is the authority on the corruption, dark money and unlawful activity that worked, at all costs, to put that movement back in its box. By reimagining these crucial accounts of contemporary political history as dramas, Marximum Volume will add colour and verve to an already powerful tale.”
The Marximum Volume team has been working closely with both Alex Nunns and Paul Holden to ensure the story is told right.
“His project is informed and underpinned by unique access to the key players and a vast documentary trove, making it an invaluable exercise in telling a misunderstood and misrepresented history in an accessible way.”
Paul Holden, author of The Fraud, commented: “I have been pleased to work with Joseph, who has gotten to grips with a vast set of primary materials and a complicated ten year-history, yet has found ways to tell a character-driven narrative that grips, informs and infuriates. His project is informed and underpinned by unique access to the key players and a vast documentary trove, making it an invaluable exercise in telling a misunderstood and misrepresented history in an accessible way.”
“MPs striving to make their own party lose, journalists hell bent on destroying a democratic leader, staff throwing spanners in the works — this is the eye-popping tale of a rearguard action by the British establishment to stop the most unlikely candidate for prime minister imaginable.”
Alex Nunns, author of The Candidate, commented: “MPs striving to make their own party lose, journalists hell bent on destroying a democratic leader, staff throwing spanners in the works — this is the eye-popping tale of a rearguard action by the British establishment to stop the most unlikely candidate for prime minister imaginable, and the grassroots movement he represented.”
OR Books: statement in full
“OR Books has today signed an agreement with Marximum Volume to adapt Paul Holden’s The Fraud and Alex Nunns’ The Candidate into a multi-series audio drama, provisionally titled “A Very British Sabotage”. It will also allow Marximum Volume the exclusive opportunity to develop The Candidate and The Fraud into television formats in the future.
OR Books has a track record of platforming dissident and marginalised voices. As such we are proud to collaborate with Joseph and Marximum Volume to bring the crucial and often ignored political history contained within The Fraud and The Candidate to a wider audience in the exciting format of audio drama, a format which has a long-standing legacy of telling important stories that resonate with the zeitgeist.
The Candidate is the authority on the democratic mass movement that, against the odds, brought Jeremy Corbyn to power in the Labour Party. The Fraud is the authority on the corruption, dark money and unlawful activity that worked, at all costs, to put that movement back in its box. By reimagining these crucial accounts of contemporary political history as dramas, Marximum Volume will add colour and verve to an already powerful tale.
By dramatising the events, distilling a complex chronology of hope and cynicism, Marximum Volume can deliver this important account to a new audience, and in doing so, contribute to the ecosystem of writers and creatives working to ensure such a deceit can never take place again.
Since 2021 Joseph has worked hard to turn an interesting idea into a reality. We are pleased that the AVBS project has reached this exciting juncture in its development and look forward to more announcements from Marximum Volume in the coming months.”
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