Vicki Lesley

@vickilesley.bsky.social

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Director of 'The Atom: A Love Affair' (Netflix & DIsney+) Host of online film club ‘The Film Thread’. Proud Brightonian & autism advocate/parent. Writing about work, life & films at vickilesley.substack.com

Cover of bonus resource guide pdf: 15 More Atomic Movies to Add to Your Watch List

Book cover: The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Atomic Radiation

An open book (chapter heading - Bylaws and Bailiffs) in the foreground with a small community garden and the tops of houses beyond

Front cover of ‘The Best Old Movies for Families’ by Ty Burr

Cover of Alex RIder, Crocodile Tears, by Anthony Horowitz

And I'd seen reports of Greenpeace and thought those guys are something else, you know, it's really fantastic. Anyway he phoned me up and he said they're setting up in UK and would I like to come and help them set up and I was amazed. And I said yes and we met that weekend and I took him to Millwall Football Club, which is the team I support, with a couple of other people. And it was a terrible game as usual! And we lost I think but went in the pub afterwards and he offered me a job for 25 pound a week.
I asked him why he contacted me and how he knew about me and he said he'd been to Friends of the Earth, he'd actually been in the UK ferretting around for people and he said, I asked Friends of the Earth who's the most "ornery son of a bitch" they've ever had working for them and they said Wilkinson, so I sought you out, cos we need ornery sons of bitches in the organisation. And that was it