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The author was born and brought up in the Forest of Dean. This title presents his personal study of that small area - its people, traditions, ceremonies and institutions - at a time of profound cultural and social change in the late 1950s and early '60s.

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Two Dennis Potter television screenplays. In "Karaoke", a dying writer more than half-imagines that something he has written has escaped into the world outside. "Cold Lazarus" is set 400 years in the future, where a cryogenically preserved head is being commercially exploited.

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Dennis Potter, British playwright, novelist and film-maker, talks about the early influences that shaped him and his career in this book that looks at Potter's pioneering use of non-naturalism, his self-reflexive subversion of film and TV cliches and his approach to sex, politics and religion.

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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.