I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

I was determined to avoid the 'hero as self-aware damaged person' paradigm. I'm afraid as a reader I got sick of all the depressed and miserable alcoholics tha…

I worked for the BBC's rival, ITV, the commercial network. What was great about it was that due to regulatory wrinkles, there was a lot of money that had to be…

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which…

'When we leave out people on the grounds of ethnicity we limit our options. As such, we become poorer because we are not making optimum use of our human resour…

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymos…

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. Th…