I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

The Met's production has been transmitted live into movie theaters worldwide on March 7 2008 part of the Met's HD series and is now available on DVD. It is completely false. John's Portsmouth.

Anthony Minghella CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.