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Puttnam invited the coalition government to convince him this spring that it appreciates the importance of the creative sector.

Arts spending will be vital for economic revival, says Lord Puttnam 2011

Co-owner Chris Puttnam said the fabric makes for dapper clothes that aren't as precious as the knickerbockers that have had a resurgence lately among English cyclists.

Easy Riders Darrell Hartman 2011

Puttnam is to speak tomorrow evening at St Ethelburga's, Bishopsgate, as part of a series of six talks run by the theatre company Jericho House, in collaboration with University College London.

Arts spending will be vital for economic revival, says Lord Puttnam 2011

Parliament has what Puttnam calls a "benign indifference" to the arts.

Arts spending will be vital for economic revival, says Lord Puttnam 2011

Puttnam believes his experience working with organisations such as the Royal Opera House, Channel 4 and The Sage in Gateshead mean he has a clear sense of how long it takes to build up a useful creative institution: It can take five years or longer.

Arts spending will be vital for economic revival, says Lord Puttnam 2011

As David Puttnam has been saying for years, the biggest risk in Hollywood at the moment is making a mid-priced, artistically adventurous movie which has a great script but no stars or special effects, ie the kind of film that studios now view as potential financial Kryptonite.

Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people 2011

There was one obstacle to Murdoch's ambitions – a clause Lord David Puttnam wrote into the 2003 Communications Act that media concentration must not inhibit the plurality of news provision.

We're such a feeble nation that Murdoch was bound to triumph | Will Hutton 2011

In a letter to this newspaper, the film director Ken Russell and the producer David Puttnam join Rushdie and Amis and the actress Rosamund Pike in urging the council to save the heritage centre, which costs around £60,000 a year to run and houses the copies of Lawrence's controversial masterpiece Lady Chatterley's Lover used in the obscenity trial that followed Penguin's publication of the unexpurgated version in 1960.

Campaign to save DH Lawrence legacy unites arts elite Vanessa Thorpe 2010

There was a time when rock movies had a certain vivacity that went with the music – That'll Be the Day and Stardust, the 1970s diptych of David Puttnam productions starring David Essex for example.

Powder – review 2011

Puttnam, 70, who first came to fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s when he produced hit films such as Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express and Chariots of Fire, and who is a former chairman of the National Film and Television School, said he wished he could talk to the prime minister, the chancellor of the exchequer and the culture ministers together to test their joint resolve on the arts.

Arts spending will be vital for economic revival, says Lord Puttnam 2011