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BBCNEWS The Media Show June 4, 2024 00:46:00

Over your character? i mean, what happens if you don t think a storyline s right for brian? well, i m afraid you bite the bullet and say the words. actors are given the scripts, in television, they learn them and, us, we turn the pages over silently, reading them. and sometimes if we don t like the story, we say it. well, we say it anyway cos we re getting paid. but i ve always thought with the archers, for me, joining all those years ago, that the writers didn t know who brian was. in 1974, i was a vehicle to marryjennifer, and there was no cv. he was a cardboard cutout going out with this woman. and i said to the producer, look, you ve got to make brian have some history. and he went, yes! so the next time i was in an episode, i was having a drink with tony archer, and he said, where do you come from, brian? he said, oh, i was in paris studying, and then my parents ....

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BBCNEWS The Media Show June 4, 2024 00:39:00

Were two years in the making. you know, we d have a two year plan, then an 18 month, then i2 month long term planning, and then a storyline conference every month ahead of the scripts, and i think there s been a lot of kind of, like, disrespect, really, for both the production and also for the audience in soaps over the years. but how do you decide on storylines? you know, do you sit down, or did you sit down, with writers and think, you know, i don t know, drug addiction, and then decide, ok, well, we re going to give it to that character. is it as mechanical as that? do you then sort of thread it through in those two years where you re thinking about it? you need people who really enjoy the form and really enjoy that creative challenge of revisiting the same storyline with a different perspective, with different characters. because we didn t have a list on the wall that says now we do drugs or whatever, it was whatever was growing within society. what were people actually concern ....

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BBCNEWS The Media Show June 4, 2024 04:40:00

no, i m not doing that. you were saying, yes, i am. the job was to get the biggest numbers that we could for channel 4. you know, and it s quite interesting listening to the numbers now, cos if we d have reached some of those numbers back in the day, we d have been pulled, you know? but i was quite interested listening. when you threw out those figures about the time from storyline to script, i think that s one of the big problems that s happened you know, that people have forgotten how difficult they are, actually, to make. and our storylines always were two years in the making. you know, we d have a two year plan, then an 18 month, then i2 month long term planning, and then a storyline conference every month ahead of the scripts, and i think there s been a lot of kind of, like, disrespect, really, for both the production and also for the audience in soaps over the years. but how do you decide on storylines? you know, do you sit down, or did you sit down, with writers and think, ....

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BBCNEWS The Media Show June 4, 2024 09:39:00

Yeah. yeah, obviously. i mean, you know, i used to be accused of sort of doing the cynical, ratings grabbing exercises. and, you know, my point to the media is, and your point is what? so you weren t saying, no, i m not doing that. you were saying, yes, i am. the job was to get the biggest numbers that we could for channel 4. you know, and it s quite interesting listening to the numbers now, cos if we d have reached some of those numbers back in the day, we d have been pulled, you know? but i was quite interested listening. when you threw out those figures about the time from storyline to script, i think that s one of the big problems that s happened you know, that people have forgotten how difficult they are, actually, to make. and our storylines always were two years in the making. you know, we d have a two year plan, then an 18 month, then 12 monthlong term planning, and then a storyline conference every month ahead of the scripts, and i think there s been a lot of kind of, ....

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BBCNEWS The Media Show June 4, 2024 04:47:00

Sort of take those beats, you have to take those pauses with the audience. and if you keep throwing it in, you burn up storylines so fast that, in the end, itjust becomes. itjust becomes wallpaper in the end, you know? now, let s think about being in soaps. let s talk about being in them. charles, you joined the archers in 1975, almost 50 years ago, so i guess you ve got the best insight of what it s like to be in a soap. i mean, how much say do you get over your character? i mean, what happens if you don t think a storyline s right for brian? well, i m afraid you bite the bullet and say the words. actors are given the scripts, in television, they learn them and, us, we turn the pages over silently, reading them. and sometimes if we don t like the story, we say it. well, we say it anyway cos we re getting paid. but i ve always thought with the archers, for me, joining all those years ago, that the writers didn t know who brian was. in 1974, i was a vehicle to marryjennifer, and there w ....

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