An exclusive interview with the writer and executive producer of Endeavour Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2021 DAMIAN: A dark, cloudy sky replete with full moon, a moody and misty canal and various other eerie shots. We’re back to where we began series seven with a bit of boo!!! Back in the day, when […]
Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2021 DAMIAN: Sara, I think I speak for many fans of Endeavour when I say that you were really missed during Joan’s secondment. How are you doing? SARA: I’m doing really well. Life has changed a bit since we last spoke. I now have a little boy. He’s just […]
Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2021 All images by Gavin Lines copyright © 2000 Endeavour copyright © Mammoth Screen ©2000/21 DAMIAN: What images do you have hanging on your office wall to inspire you? GAVIN: I certainly have a taste for graphic design of the 1950s and ’60s. I have a number of posters […]
Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2021 DAMIAN: I know it’s something to do with Indian music but why did you specifically choose to title this film RAGA? RUSS: We always try to include a musical title across the run. And, given the Indian flavour of the story, RAGA – a central feature of Indian […]
An exclusive Endeavour interview with writer/deviser/executive producer Russell Lewis Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2021 Here we are again. Finally. At last. We left Morse, Thursday and the rest of Oxford’s finest back in 1970. The world has obviously seen many changes in the intervening decades. And yet, the world has perhaps become even more different […]
An exclusive Endeavour interview with Anton Lesser Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2020 DAMIAN: We’ll discuss Bright and Endeavour shortly, but first I wanted to talk about your return to the theatre last June after a ten-year-absence. Why such a long break? ANTON: Well, good question. I had two or three years of vocal […]
An exclusive Endeavour interview with writer/deviser/executive producer Russell Lewis Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2020 EXT. CHIGTON GREEN/POST OFFICE/ROAD – DAY 1 The CHIGTON GREEN CLOCK – telling the time. Never too quickly. Never too slowly. Telling the time for Chigton… A SIGN for: “CHIGTON GREEN” Here the green. There the duckpond. Shops. Butcher, […]
An exclusive Endeavour interview with composer Matthew Slater Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2020 DAMIAN: What makes a truly great TV theme? MATTHEW: Well, that’s the 64 million dollar question. I think it depends on the time of the making of the program as well. Coronation Street has spanned decades without change, even when […]
An exclusive Endeavour interview with James Bradshaw Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2020 DAMIAN: Our friend Dr Maximilian Theodore Siegfried de Bryn proved resilient to much of the culture and fashion of the 1960s but what are the chances of him succumbing to disco fever during the new decade? JAMES: Well, I really can’t […]
An exclusive Endeavour interview with Sean Rigby Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2020 BRIGHT: When I arrived here three years ago, I had such high hopes. What an ignominious end I have led you to. I shall resign, of course. THURSDAY: Sir… BRIGHT: I failed him. I failed my men. The station gone. My […]