The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

" It was also included in the British Film Institute's "TV 100" list in 2000 where it was praised for the themes and subtexts it explored. Similarly in 1995 Kneale scripted a four-part adaptation of one of Kerr's sequels to the book A Small Person Far Away but this also went unproduced.

He was most active in television joining BBC Television in 1951 ; his final script was transmitted on ITV in 1997. ". G.