>Interviewed an author called Pete Davies today. Nice chap. Told me an interesting story...
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>"...The travel documentary i made, which i did about '92/'93 i think... had a great time shooting it. It was about Poland, i was in Poland for 3 weeks. I had a lovely time shooting it, just me and another guy doing it on handhelds... Bring 20 hours of footage back, sit in a darkened room for three weeks cutting that down to the one hour that works, with some idiot woman from channel 4 coming in every few days, demanding that you explain more and explain more and explain more.... eventually you look at her and say 'ah, excuse me, this is television. Why are you making me write more on the soundtrack all the time?' 'To eplain stuff.' I said, 'Look, it's television, it's got pictures, the pictures explaining.' She goes 'yeah, but my mum wouldn't understand it.' (Laughs) And the number of times she used that catchphrase, eventually i turned to her and said, 'is your mum really fucking stupid or what?' You know, the program was nothing like as good as it could have been, as far as i was concerned, because of the involvement of other people..."
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Well that wouldn't happen now. There'd be a team of people from the Channel. And their assistants.

>>Interviewed an author called Pete Davies today. Nice chap. Told me an interesting story...
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>>"...The travel documentary i made, which i did about '92/'93 i think... had a great time shooting it. It was about Poland, i was in Poland for 3 weeks. I had a lovely time shooting it, just me and another guy doing it on handhelds... Bring 20 hours of footage back, sit in a darkened room for three weeks cutting that down to the one hour that works, with some idiot woman from channel 4 coming in every few days, demanding that you explain more and explain more and explain more.... eventually you look at her and say 'ah, excuse me, this is television. Why are you making me write more on the soundtrack all the time?' 'To eplain stuff.' I said, 'Look, it's television, it's got pictures, the pictures explaining.' She goes 'yeah, but my mum wouldn't understand it.' (Laughs) And the number of times she used that catchphrase, eventually i turned to her and said, 'is your mum really fucking stupid or what?' You know, the program was nothing like as good as it could have been, as far as i was concerned, because of the involvement of other people..."
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>Well that wouldn't happen now. There'd be a team of people from the Channel. And their assistants.
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Too many cooks, eh?

Too many cocks, more like.

(insert canned laughter)