Dennis Potter

Dennis Potter was (IMHO) Britain’s greatest TV playwright. A short extract from his last interview, with Melvyn Bragg, recorded in March 1994 is available here. I have a recording of the complete interview, which always moves me to tears of both joy and sadness. Potter remained impish to the end, and the sight of him swigging morphine from his hip flask while explaining the elaborate joke that he was to play on the TV companies with his final broadcast work always makes me smile. A great human being.

 

Update: here’s another extract from an interview with Potter – this time conducted by Alan Yentob. Not as good as with Bragg, but by god, the force that was Dennis Potter still shines through.