An exclusive Endeavour interview with Abigail Thaw Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2023 Please note that this interview contains spoilers for those who haven’t seen the final episode. DAMIAN: Although you were just a kid in the early 70s – indeed, I remember you previously mentioned to me playing football in the streets and sitting […]
An exclusive Endeavour interview with director, Kate Saxon Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2023 DAMIAN: Apart from Shaun Evans, you have directed more episodes of Endeavour than anyone else. However, before we discuss these, can you tell me how you got into directing? KATE: I was an actress first. I started acting at school and […]
ENDEAVOUR: Marry me. JOAN: That’s not funny. ENDEAVOUR: It wasn’t meant to be. JOAN: I know. You were being nice. I don’t want pity. I couldn’t live with that. Never mind what Dad would say… – HARVEST (S4:E4) An exclusive Endeavour interview with Sara Vickers Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2023 DAMIAN: Sara, I’m thinking […]
Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2023 Little acorns and strange bedfellows An exclusive Endeavour interview with Sean Rigby DAMIAN: There was both good and bad news back in 2012. The bad news was that you didn’t get a part in Lewis, but the good news was that you did get a part in Endeavour. Thinking […]
To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica Glistens like coral in all of the neighbouring gardens, And to-day we have naming of parts. First stanza of Naming of Parts from the […]
Interview and introduction (‘Drinks at the Randolph’) copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2023 Drinks at the Randolph THE MORSE BAR at the Randolph Hotel is quite small but comfortably intimate. This is particularly the case if you are fortunate enough to find an unoccupied table by the glorious, open stone fireplace which dominates the room. Although […]
Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2023 ~ An exclusive Endeavour interview with Anton Lesser ~ DAMIAN: Now, a couple of things first, I received an email from Kate Saxon [Director] this morning and she asked me to tell you that she sends her love. ANTON: Aww, brilliant, thank you. DAMIAN: This interview we’re doing now […]
Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2023 Looking back at his early interests as a boy, it might be easy to see how he got to be one of our country’s very finest television writers working in the detective and murder mystery genre. You know, I’ve always tried to be reasonably objective but having had the […]
Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2023 ‘Strange what one recalls…’ Despite letters home, lessons in Latin and a large collection of toy soldiers in “his early life”, it’s the vivid memory of hearing Scottish pop group, Middle of the Road’s rendition of Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep blaring out of a radio at Shepperton Studios in […]
Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2021 DAMIAN: Russ thinks it was either a sunny Saturday or Sunday morning in late July that he began writing his original libretto for what was then ‘The Devil’s Bride or A Cure for Love’. When did you first hear about his plans to create these opera pieces for […]