THE ENDEAVOUR INTERVIEWS 2020: STEPHEN LA RIVIERE

An exclusive Endeavour interview with writer, producer, director, puppet operator and editor Stephen La Rivière Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2020 INT. MOONBASE Consoles with winking lights. The HERO of MOON RANGERS – square jawed MAJOR.ROCK RENTON with X1 the ANDROID and COLONEL CRATER, crusty old patriarch. MAJOR RENTON: If only we could access […]

THE ENDEAVOUR INTERVIEWS 2020: RUSSELL LEWIS PART II

An exclusive Endeavour interview with writer/deviser/executive producer Russell Lewis Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2020 Special thanks to Stephen La Rivière INT. VENDING MACHINE AREA/NEW COWLEY POLICE STATION BRIGHT at his solitary repast – nosing through a newspaper with an APOLLO HEADLINE. THURSDAY arrives. THURSDAY: Giving the canteen a miss today, sir? BRIGHT: I […]

THE ENDEAVOUR INTERVIEWS 2020: RUSSELL LEWIS PART I

An exclusive Endeavour interview with writer/deviser/executive producer Russell Lewis Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2020 ‘I’m afraid I see little of anyone in Traffic, but you’re remembered – often. All my old Cowley gang. You, Inspector Thursday, Sergeant. Strange. Constable Trewlove. And young Fancy, of course. Absent friends. Not yet a year, and already […]

THE ENDEAVOUR INTERVIEWS 2020: MADELAINE LEECH

An exclusive Endeavour interview with production designer Madelaine Leech Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2020 DAMIAN: When did you first become aware of the art of production design and was there a particular TV show or a trip to the cinema that fired your imagination? MADELAINE: Maybe I was just a slow starter but […]

THE ENDEAVOUR INTERVIEWS 2020: ABIGAIL THAW

An exclusive Endeavour interview with Abigail Thaw Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2020 ‘I see Dorothea in the 1960s as having the sleuth-like brains of Ms Marple, the independent feminism of Germaine Greer, the seductive charms of Ava Gardner and the sense of humour of Eric Morcambe.’ Abigail Thaw (March, 2014) DAMIAN: It’s been […]

THE ENDEAVOUR INTERVIEWS 2019: Anton Lesser

All things Bright… Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2019 DAMIAN: Dickens (aka Uncovering the Real Dickens) was a wonderful three-part 2002 BBC docudrama written and presented by the great Peter Ackroyd. Now, the reason I mention this, aside from the fact that I love to rewatch it almost every Christmas, is the fact that […]

THE ENDEAVOUR INTERVIEWS 2019: Russell Lewis Part IV

Library of a lunatic Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2019 INT. POLICE STATION/CORRIDOR/CID – DAY X (FLASHBACK) BRIGHT alone in the corridor. He steels himself, comes along the corridor – and enters CID at the THURSDAY OFFICE end. BRIGHT: If I might have everyone’s attention. THURSDAY emerges from his office. UNIFORMS arrive. BRIGHT (cont’d): […]

THE ENDEAVOUR INTERVIEWS 2019: Matthew Slater

For me, as an aficionado of Horror and German Expressionist Cinema, I know that some of the most potent screen images come from those early silent films such as Cesare abducting and dragging his prey across the oblique cityscape in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), the shadow of Count Orlok slowly ascending the staircase […]

THE ENDEAVOUR INTERVIEWS 2019: Sara Vickers

If he can’t have her, he must hurt her… Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2019 DAMIAN: For the first few years at least, although it was always wonderful when Joan did pop up, she’d only make the occasional appearance opening the door for Endeavour and they’d flirt while he waiting for Thursday, that sort […]

THE ENDEAVOUR INTERVIEWS 2019: Damien Timmer

An exclusive interview with the executive producer of Endeavour and managing director of Mammoth Screen. Rise of the Mammuthus primigenius Interview copyright © Damian Michael Barcroft 2019 DAMIAN: I’d like to start by going back to what, in many respects, might be retrospectively viewed as the beginning with your work as a script editor on […]