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In a sense, Bond ousted the cowboy as the screen hero, and Ken Adams replaced the horse with technology.

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Craig has explored the darker recesses of 007's psyche. He has shown us the lonely man. And he has shown him falling truly in love.

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There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama?

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It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.

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Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.

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I wanted 'The South Bank Show' to reflect my own life and that of the team around me; to stretch the accepted boundaries and challenge the accepted hierarchies of the arts; to include pop music as well as classical music, television drama as well as theatre drama, and high-definition performers in comedy.

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The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.

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I enjoy what was called 'swotting' in my day.

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I've been writing since I was 19.

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I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: October 6th, 1939

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