'They are not going to remove the marina so let's hope this new venture they are planning transforms what we have.'
Home is where the heart is, and for author Colin Bateman there is something about Bangor that keeps drawing him back.
"I was doing an event with Maggie Taggert from the BBC and she was saying when she was working there would be a bomb on the Friday and then you would have completely forgotten it by two days later because there had been something else. Whereas in any sort of detail I can remember one bomb in Bangor in 1992 and I can remember lots about it because it was such a rare occurrence."
"So they came to me, it is a festival I have worked with for a long time and know very well, [they said] would I step in and help out. Initially, I said no because it's not really the sort of thing I do, I write fiction. But they kept at me. "It is a mixture of memories and then you say to yourself, 'When did it actually happen' and you go and looks it up in a local history book and prompt something else. It is an endless series of connections really."
"I met him in the early days of casting for The Journey I went over and saw him in his apartment in New York and then Kenneth Branagh came in because he was originally going to play Martin McGuinness and they sat and read the script to each other which was a bit surreal to tell you the truth," he said.
He added: "I have always had a problem with there being a Marina in Bangor, I have never seen the point of it whatsoever to take away the one thing that is attractive about the sea front, it's the sea. But you can't go back, they are not going to remove the marina so let's hope this new venture they are planning transforms what we have."
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