Film, food and football were constant themes in the life of my friend Chris Nawrat, the former Sunday Times sports editor, who has died of cancer aged 66.
As a student in the 1970s, he fought to form a federation of student film societies strong enough to break the distributors’ monopoly. Later, he advised on the 1988 TV series A Very British Coup, about a leftwing Labour government coming to power. An excellent cook, in 1994 he co-wrote a Traveller’s Food and Wine Guide to Spain and Portugal, with his first wife, Christine Boyle. His favourite football team was Tottenham Hotspur.
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