A university academic who is receiving "substantial damages" for how he was portrayed in a film has told Sky News he hasn't received an apology from star Steve Coogan - nor the two companies involved in its production.

Richard Taylor said he was "shell-shocked" after seeing The Lost King for the first time, a film about how Richard III's skeleton was discovered below a car park in Leicester .

He told The UK Tonight with Sarah-Jane Mee: "I wasn't consulted or even knew I was in the film. The first I hear is I get a phone call while I'm on holiday - and eventually, after press previews, I persuade the producers to let me see a preview."

Image: Richard III

Last year, a judge ruled that Mr Taylor was depicted as "smug, unruly dismissive and patronising" - with the plot suggesting

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