Behind the scenes of the Guardian’s libel battle with Noel Clarke
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:09.2 | Today, the women who took on Noel Clark. |
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| 1:06.2 | A quick warning before we start, as you might imagine, given the nature of the allegations against Noel Clark, |
| 1:14.9 | this episode contains graphic descriptions of sexual misconduct. |
| 1:21.9 | So when I first met Noel, it was at Bournem of Comic Conny in 2016. |
| 1:26.7 | I was about 27 and I was his guest assistant, so I was |
| 1:30.5 | looking after him that day. This is Lisa Graham. She'd worked at Comic Cons for years, |
| 1:36.1 | chaperoning film and TV stars as they met their fans. And they're like, FYI, Lisa, you're with |
| 1:40.7 | Noel Clark today. And I'm like, okay, cool, I know who he is. I am a Doctor Who fan. |
| 1:47.0 | Nor Clark's big break was playing Mickey in Doctor Who during the Christopher Eccleston and David Tenantirers. |
| 1:54.0 | When Lisa met him, he was 40 years old and had made a name for himself as a writer and director |
| 1:59.6 | with a trilogy of films inspired by his upbringing in West London, |
| 2:03.6 | kiddlethood, adulthood and brotherhood. He was really friendly, but he was quite childish. He reminded me of |
| 2:12.3 | the boys when I had gone to university. He were like 18, 19 years old, who were just thinking that they were funnier than they were. |
| 2:20.9 | So yeah, in the beginning, I was like, okay, who's cool, we're chatting. |
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