![]() The Sillitoe Trail was originally launched by James Walker and Paul Fillingham in 2012, for TheSpace an experimental on-demand digital arts platform commissioned by Arts Council England and the BBC. Each location explores a particular theme and features Arthur Seaton, Sillitoe’s defiant anti-hero at the centre of the narrative. ![]() The work focusses on five locations from the novel – The Old Market Square, the White Horse pub, the Raleigh Cycle Factory, the River Trent, and the Goose Fair. The Sillitoe Trail is a digital re-imagining of Alan Sillitoe’s first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the film version by Karel Reisz (1960) which stand as beacons for debating contemporary British values and identity. Nottingham-born, Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) is best known for his first two books Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner (1959). A literary journey based on Alan Sillitoe’s 1958 novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning About the Sillitoe Trail and The Space arts platform ![]()
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