Anthem

I actually had that

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I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I’d written a totally different script – about war, basically – that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, Well, there … Read more

National Anthem was just

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National Anthem was just a funny idea I’d been knocking about. I initially thought about a beloved celebrity having to do that – and then I watched an episode of 24. In my head, I was writing almost a parody of a 24-style president woken in the middle of the night with a crisis. It … Read more

Oh, Brethren, it is

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Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited … Read more