Seeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture - Softcover

Potter, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571174361 ISBN 13: 9780571174362

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1994

Synopsis

Contains the interview between Dennis Potter and Melvyn Bragg conducted on 5 April 1994 on Channel 4 television. Potter knew he had only a few weeks to live so the discussion is of great poignancy and power. Their conversation records Potter's honest dissection of his life and work. This book also contains Potter's celebrated James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1993 and an earlier BBC2 television interview.

About this title

About the Author:

Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0571174361
• ISBN 13: 9780571174362
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96