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James Maw (1957-) Is a British novelist who also works in Television and Radio, primarily for Granada and the BBC. He is a regular presenter of documentaries for BBC Radio 4.He became a child evangelist at 12 years old, but went on to join the punk movement and wrote 'The Official Adam Ant Story'. His first play 'Milktrane' won the Sunday Times play award in 1980. He presented two series of Thames Television's youth debate and music programme 'White Light' on which he gave the first TV exposure to U2 and Spandau Ballet. On the same programme he famously turned to a young hopeful pop star in the audience, by the name of Boy George, and gave him the advice 'You'll never get anywhere in the pop business unless you wipe off all that make-up'. WRITING His first novel 'Hard Luck' won the Society of Author's Betty Trask Prize in 1986. He joined Granada Telivision as a comedy producer from 1985-1995 working with David Liddiment, Steve Coogan, Caroline Aherne, Jack Dee, Tony Wilson. He wrote the novel for Tim Sullivan's film 'Jack and Sarah' starring Judi Dench, Richard E. Grant and Sir Ian Mckellan in 1995, and then left Granada to travel the world. In Mexico he wrote 'Year of the Jaguar' (Hodder & Stoughton) and in Colombia he wrote 'Nothing But Trouble.' Broadcasting Maw spent two years making TV documentaries in China, Vietnam and Cambodia. More recent documentaries were made in London. 'Scraps of Bacon' (BBC Radio 4) about a night he'd spent with the painter Francis Bacon was broadcast in October 2008. The latest 'Revealing the Mind Bender General' about the psychiatrist William Sargant was broadcast in April 2009. He lives in Brighton.