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People in the BBC are always dying to get out of their open-plan offices.

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Andrew Davies
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: September 30
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Andrew Wynford Davies
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From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best stories.
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I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
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I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff.
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I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
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I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.
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The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.
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The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.
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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
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People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
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The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads.
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Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.
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I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.
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I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.
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I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
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