Chris Atkins
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- Born
- 1976
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- journalist · film director · film producer
- Education
- Bromsgrove School
- Languages
- English
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Chris Atkins studied at Bromsgrove School. The recorded working language is English.
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- 1.Atkins' Evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. 6 December 2011.
- 2.Lisa O'Carroll and Josh Halliday. Leveson inquiry: Chris Atkins, David Leigh, Charlotte Harris - live. The Guardian. 6 December 2011.
- 3.Bafta-nominated producers of Starsuckers film jailed for £2.2m tax scam. BBC. 1 July 2016.
- 4.Regina v. Christopher Walsh-Atkins and Christina Slater Sentencing. 1 July 2016.
- 5.Bromsgrovian News Review. 20. Spring 2008.
- 6.Wheeler, Brian. Taking liberties?. BBC. 1 June 2007.
- 7.Reynolds, Nigel. New film 'exposes Orwellian Labour'. The Daily Telegraph. July 2021.
- 8.Bradshaw, Peter. Taking Liberties. the Guardian. 8 June 2007.
- 9.Taking Liberties Awards. IMDB.
- 10.Starsuckers celebrity hoax dupes tabloids, The Guardian, 14 October 2009
- 11.Townend, Judith. Documentary's legal battles reveal ugly truth about UK media culture. Journalism.co.uk. 8 April 2010.
- 12.Plunkett, John. Nigel Farage to take power in Ukip documentary spoof. The Guardian. 30 October 2014.
- 13.Plunkett, John. Ukip docudrama: watchdog investigates after more than 6,500 complaints. The Guardian. 23 February 2015.
- 14.Greenslade, Roy. Coronation Street Twitter sting claims: Channel 4 to air Dispatches film. The Guardian. 5 August 2013.
- 15.Chris Atkins. The Guardian.
- 16.Townsend, Mark. Chris Atkins. The Guardian. 12 May 2012.
- 17.Halliday, Josh. Chris Atkins. The Guardian. 25 July 2013.
- 18.BBC. Panorama, All in a Good Cause.
- 19.Atkins, Chris. How I revealed bad investments by Comic Relief - and turned into the comedy establishment's most hated man. The Independent. 13 December 2013.
- 20.Chris Atkins. The Guardian.
- 21.Wagatha Christie Drama: Channel 4 Casts Its Rebekah Vardy & Coleen Rooney, With Michael Sheen Set To Play Barrister. Deadline. 12 October 2022.
- 22.DeFore, John. 'Who Killed The KLF?': Film Review - Fantastic Fest 2021. Hollywood Reporter. 6 October 2021.
- 23.Richards, Will. 'Who Killed The KLF?': watch the trailer for divisive new documentary. Rolling Stone UK. 5 April 2022.
- 24.Gant, Charles. Filmmaker Chris Atkins talks about the UK film tax fraud that saw him sentenced to five years in prison. Screen International. 19 February 2020.
- 25.Watch the trailer for controversial new documentary 'Who Killed The KLF?'. NME. 5 April 2022.
- 26.Waterson, Jim. KLF assert justified and ancient copyright claim to block documentary. The Guardian. 19 October 2021.
- 27.Atkins, Chris. The film the KLD didn't want you to see. The Guardian. 8 April 2022.
- 28.Atkins, Chris. Rotten Tomatoes. 23 October 2023.
- 29.'We didn't use the word prison': our family's two-year sentence. The Guardian. 1 August 2020.
- 30.Brown, David. Celebrity hoax film-makers go on trial for tax fraud. The Times. 25 May 2016.
- 31.Film producers jailed for 'audacious' £2.2m film tax scam. Press Association. 1 July 2016.
- 32.Bignell, Paul. A major film-making scheme exploited loopholes in the Noughties. The i. 31 August 2018.
- 33.Wood, Heloise. Atlantic triumphs in seven-way auction for prison diary. The Bookseller. 27 June 2019.
- 34.Morrison, Blake. A Bit of a Stretch by Chris Atkins review – how to survive in prison. The Guardian. 5 February 2020. 0261-3077.
- 35.Lewis, Roger. Think you could survive a British prison? Good luck. The Telegraph. 23 February 2020.
- 36.Gant, Charles. Filmmaker Chris Atkins talks about the UK film tax fraud that saw him sentenced to five years in prison. Screen International. 19 February 2021.
- 37.Marriott, James. A Bit of a Stretch review — inside story of a middle-class prisoner. The Times. 1 October 2020.
- 38.Bignell, Paul. Chris Atkins: 'Reading saved my sanity when I was in prison'. The i. 25 September 2020.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Atkins, Chris. Taking Liberties. Revolver Books. 2007. 978-1905978038.
- Atkins, Chris. A Bit of a Stretch: The Diary of a Prisoner. Atlantic Books. 2020. 9781838950156.
- Atkins, Chris. Time After Time: Repeat Offenders – The Inside Stories. Atlantic Books. 2023. 9781838954666.
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