The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

" It was also included in the British Film Institute's "TV 100" list in 2000 where it was praised for the themes and subtexts it explored. Similarly in 1995 Kneale scripted a four-part adaptation of one of Kerr's sequels to the book A Small Person Far Away but this also went unproduced.

He was most active in television joining BBC Television in 1951 ; his final script was transmitted on ITV in 1997. ". G.