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Dir/scr: Carol Morley. UK-Ireland. 2011. 90mins A disturbing, part-dramatised documentary, Dreams Of A Life is, like its protagonist, maddeningly elusive yet also hauntingly unforgettable at times. In it, writer/director Carol Morley (Edge) attempts to find out precisely who was Joyce Carol Vincent, a woman who died alone in a London bedsit shortly before Christmas 2003 and whose body was not discovered for another three years, the TV set still flickering over her skeletised remains.Dreams Of A Life probably poses more questions than it answers, which seems somehow right, given the story it documents.Falling somewhere between the posts of a rigorous documentary and an impressionistic, factualised account, Morley’s doc may draw audiences in the UK, where the story still has some resonance. Despite its blurriness (interviewees aren’t named, for example) and a somewhat bland shooting style not always helped by reconstructions, this may also attract festival attention. Vincent’s story shocked Britain and Morley’s documentary effectively pokes at the wound, disturbing the viewer with its core questions about the very measure of a life in today’s fast-paced urban society.On the discovery of her body, surrounded by wrapped Christmas presents, Vincent became something of a mystery in the UK, with neither the police nor the coroner’s court able to piece together quite who precisely she was and how her death passed un-noticed for all that time. Who were these wrapped presents intended for – the people who never even noticed she had gone?Morley has spent five years hunting down Joyce Carol Vincent, placing

FeaturesLouderDecember 2003: It is a few days before Christmas. In her North London bedsit, Joyce Carol Vincent has just returned from a shopping trip in Wood Green. She turns the heating up to banish the bitter December chill and flicks on the television for some company before contemplating the wrapped Christmas presents laid out before her.The past few years have been somewhat tumultuous for the attractive young woman of Grenadine descent. She resigned from her job working in the treasury department of well-known financiers Ernst & Young a few years prior in 2001 and had sought help following domestic abuse, spending some time in a shelter in Haringey and later finding work in a small hotel. For reasons that are only known to herself, she had slowly retreated from contact with her four older sisters. Her mother had died when she was 11, her father, with whom she had a fractious relationship, would die in 2004, although an indication of the turmoil surrounding Vincent at the time led her to claim he’d died in 2001.Quite why Vincent chose to cut herself off from her family we’ll never know. Was it shame from the alleged domestic abuse? Was it from her fall from grace from a well-paid city job and a life that had brought the young Londoner into contact with the likes of Nelson Mandela and Gil-Scott Heron, as well as having dined with Stevie Wonder, to working in a budget hotel? Perhaps she was even still suffering at the hands of her then-fiancé? None of this we will ever know.What we do know, however, from the Christmas gifts wrapped and ready to be delivered that sat around her, is that there appears to have been a move to rebuild bridges with her sisters. Some of those gifts were addressed to members of a family she had not seen for almost two years. It seems that Joyce Vincent was on the verge of hauling her life out of the doldrums of the past two years – wherein she’d suffered at the hands of the aforementioned domestic abuse and more recently had been treated for a peptic ulcer at hospital – and was on the path to sorting out the loose threads.Joyce Vincent never delivered those Christmas presents. She would never see any member of her family again, despite her sisters hiring a private detective, who indeed found Joyce’s bedsit in

Eight hundred years ago King John of England was forced to seal a document of historic importance. As the first charter to grant individual liberties under the rule of law, protecting the people against tyranny, Magna Carta is the most influential and far-reaching legal text the world has ever known. For this book, published with the official support of the UK Magna Carta Trust and marking the eight hundredth anniversary of the charter's first issue, Professor Nicholas Vincent is joined by a range of experts on Magna Carta from across the world to reflect on the circumstances of its genesis and its enduring significance. Magna Carta was serially reinterpreted by later generations, becoming a totem in fierce political debates on the liberties of the people - it became a sacred text for English puritans of the Civil War, for the American patriots of the War of Independence, and for all those in the English-speaking world who have striven to build democratic rights and freedoms in the post-colonial age. Contents: Magna Carta in Context: a general survey from 1215 to the present day Nicholas Vincent Law Before Magna Carta: the Anglo-Saxon law codes and their successors before 1215 Nicholas Vincent Plantagenet Tyranny and Lawmaking Nicholas Vincent The Tyranny of King John Nicholas Vincent Magna Carta: Defeat into Victory Nicholas Vincent Magna Carta in the Later Middle Ages Anthony Musson Magna Carta against the King Justin Champion Magna Carta and the American Age of Reason Joyce Lee Malcolm Magna Carta in the 19th Century Miles Taylor From World War to World Heritage: Magna Carta in the 20th Century Nicholas Vincent 21st-Century Magna Carta Richard Goldstone

London. She didn’t answer her sister’s calls and lacked a close circle of friends, relying on the company of relative strangers associated with a new boyfriend, colleague, or flatmate.In popular culture“Dreams of a Life” is a film that delves into the story of Joyce Carol Vincent. Released in 2011 and written/directed by Carol Morley, with Zawe Ashton portraying Vincent, the film explores Vincent’s life by tracking down and interviewing individuals who were acquainted with her. Descriptions paint a picture of a beautiful, intelligent, socially active woman—an “upwardly mobile” and “high flyer” who was assumed to be living a better life elsewhere by those who knew her. Throughout her life, Vincent had encounters with notable figures such as Nelson Mandela, Ben E. King, Gil Scott-Heron, and Betty Wright. She even spoke on the phone with Isaac Hayes and had dinner with Stevie Wonder, who was unaware of her identity at the time.In another artistic expression inspired by Vincent’s life, English musician Steven Wilson announced on November 4, 2014, that his fourth CD release, titled “Hand. Cannot. Erase.,” would be based on Vincent’s life. Wilson was motivated to create a concept album after watching “Dreams of a Life.” The album’s deluxe release included a book that revealed ‘H.’ as the central character, a highly fictionalized version of Vincent. ‘H.’ is born on October 8, 1978, to an Italian mother and meets a mysterious fate on December 22, 2014.Her only sister, ‘J.,’ was briefly fostered by their parents before their divorce. In the