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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a social realist writer.
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I like to write about characters who are conflicted.
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One of the things I learned on medical drama 'Bodies' was that actors can't play ambiguity.
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Part of me isn't that interested as a person and a viewer in people's personal lives. I'm much more interested in what people do in the workplace and what goals they set themselves. I guess that's why I write a lot of precinct drama.
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I think that the audience is smart enough to know that just because a drama is relating to real-world parallels, it doesn't mean that its story is exactly that story.
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People are used to watching cop shows in which the cops are very straight down the line and they solve the crimes, but I think people actually have a much more sophisticated and varied view of the police.
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I like to sit at my desk... sometimes I get inspiration when I'm going about my normal day-to-day life.
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I always try and distinguish between facts and opinions.
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I don't normally think of a specific actor. I concentrate on the character, and then when we get into pre-production, that's how names come up.
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When 'Line of Duty' started on BBC2, there was a feeling that it couldn't ever become a big show because the BBC2 drama budget is much smaller, and a returning cop series would take away from the Stephen Poliakoff/David Hare stuff that they love to commission.
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People don't always understand the way it works with casting. TV projects tend to be commissioned to screen at a particular time of year, so your shooting dates are chosen to meet that. And then the casting is a matter of choosing from the actors who are available for those dates.
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There is an apparatus set up to protect politicians, but those within that apparatus will have their own political views. I've got mates who are police officers and mates who are in the military, and they often have a very different view to the policy they're asked to carry out.
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Between the ages of 12 and 15, I wanted to be a pilot because I thought it would be glamorous and dangerous.
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In my third year at medical school in Birmingham, I joined the Air Force as a medical cadet so that I was sponsored to become a doctor.
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As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started reading more literary fiction.
- Cooking
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If we have friends over for dinner, I do the cooking. I like the pressure of a big meal and the technical challenges of a roast.
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I love writing thrillers.
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