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Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?

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Andrew Davies
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: September 30
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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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Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.
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I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.
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