Greater London

<p>GREATER LONDON tells the life-story of Leo Barber a celebrity across several domains. He first finds fame during the 1975 referendum on the UK's membership of the Common Market (as it was then) by inventing a character called Jimmy Paxton a faux-innocent rabble-rousing xenophobe. Later in life he passes himself off as a poet whose poems were in fact generated by computer in his brother's laboratory. Later still he authors a book on the neuroscience of the creative mind about which he knows nothing (though luckily his clever put-upon brother does). But despicable though he is who would have thought he'd stoop to murder? We hear about all this in Leo's own voice - discursive opinionated vulnerable comic often sympathetic. Not the voice or mind of a natural villain.</p>