Fifty years on, ‘Dai’ recalls his role in a movie that still resonates today…

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Barrie Farnsworth talks to the actor who shot to fame as a schoolboy half a century ago… and is making a special visit to north Derbyshire this month.

A ‘NORTHERN’ movie first screened in the UK half a century ago shot a 14-year-old boy to worldwide fame… and he’ll be in north Derbyshire this month to introduce a special viewing of a very special film.

The film, of course, was KES – the story of how working-class boy Billy Casper, bullied at school, rears and trains a kestrel – only to see it killed by his older brother…