Jarman

Parents of Eddie Jarman, 14, killed by speedboat in Tahiti give first shatteringly raw interview

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Four weeks ago, 14-year-old music scholar Eddie Jarman swam with his younger sister Amelie in the warm, clear waters of the South Pacific to make a video for their grandmother. It was, they marvelled, ‘like paradise’. But within a few brief hours, this exceptional teenager was dead, killed by a rented speedboat while snorkelling near … Read more

The garden that film-maker Derek Jarman created

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On New Year’s Day, 1989, film-maker Derek Jarman wrote in his diary, ‘Prospect Cottage, its timbers black with pitch, stands on the shingle at Dungeness. There are no walls or fences. My garden’s boundaries are the horizon.’ Could there be any less promising place to make a garden, let alone a garden now as famous … Read more