You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

" 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.