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NIGEL KNEALE INTERVIEW

Writer Nigel Kneale was responsible for some of the most innovative and chilling programmes on British screens.

Here, in exclusive interview clips, he talked about his career and what he thought of today's television. This interview was conducted for Time Shift's documentary The Kneale Tapes, which was broadcast on BBC Four in 2005.

 
  One of the later Quatermass monsters   Writing Quatermass and making the first monster 
2 min 17

  The Year of the Sex Olympics   The perils of live TV and getting away with The Sex Olympics 
2 min 52

  Patrick Troughton as Dr Who   Why he refused to work on Doctor Who 
2 min 7

  Nigel Kneale   Hollywood, horror and why The Others is a great film 
3 min 35


 
MY SCIENCE FICTION LIFE
Share your memories of Blake's 7 and the Doctor
  My Science Fiction Life (Tom Baker as Doctor Who)
THE KNEALE TAPES
Time Shift looks back at a great career in television
  Nigel Kneale in 1955

 THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT

 NIGEL KNEALE OBITUARY



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