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The Rhythm of Life (1997) (documentary series about
music with George Martin)
I’d known George Martin since my days being
slipped into a couple of Beatle recording sessions
at
Abbey Road by Paul McCartney, so I was thrilled and
flattered to co-write this series for him with
the director/producer Alan Benson. (BBC-2)
A Day To Remember (1994)
A documentary I presented as part of the BBC’s
fiftieth anniversary of D-Day programmes, it included
seeing for the first time my father’s grave
in France. His body had been washed up in Brittany
after he'd been lost at sea in 1944 while serving
with the Royal Navy, but, until the BBC located the
little French churchyard, I’d never known where
he was buried.
Perfect Scoundrels (1990)
Actors Bryan Murray and Peter Bowles virtually bullied
me into devising and writing this series for them.
After
seeing The Sting I’d always vowed I’d never
write a film about con men, because the stories were
too difficult to design. But having started I loved
writing the episodes, although each scam took months
to dream up and get right.
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Defrosting The Fridge (1989)
A BBC 2 film about English people who played American
football, it starred Joe Don Baker and Phyllis Logan.
A very ambitious project for producer Terry Coles and
director Sandy Johnson in terms of scale, it worked
well, the sub-text being globalisation.
Lytton’s
Diary (1985-86)
The original idea for this came from actor Peter Bowles who,
at the time, was intrigued by gossip columnists. We
did two series of six episodes.
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Forever Young (1984)
I’ve always felt that this Channel Four film (not
the Mel Gibson movie) is the best constructed screenplay
I’ve written, the idea coming to me from a photograph
of a fourteen year old Simon and Garfunkel. What would
have happened to them if they’d split up before
they became famous, and then met again in mid-life?
A film about betrayal and broken ambition, this was
also about emotional pain being passed from one generation
to the next.
Click here to listen to the Title song for Forever Young
Honky Tonk Heroes (1981)
A trilogy of plays with music set in a south London country and western club.
Almost Tomorrow, Our Kid and An Hour In the Life (1977)
Three BBC plays commissioned to commemorate the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.