Seeing the Blossom

Description

On 5 April 1994, Dennis Potter was interviewed by Melvyn Bragg on Channel 4 Television. It was a broadcast of great poignancy and power: Dennis Potter knew he only had a few weeks to live. Their conversation records Potter's honest dissection of his life and work. Frank, amusing and moving, this inspirational and unique testament is one of the defining moments of television history.Seeing the Blossom also contains Dennis Potter's celebrated James MacTaggart Memorial lecture at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1993 and an earlier BBC2 TV interview. This new edition includes Potter's final piece of work, 'Last Pearls', a mordant and witty short story written in 1994 for the Daily Telegraph.

Dennis Potter was born in 1935 in Gloucestershire. After National Service he won a place at New College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He became one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed dramatists. His plays for television include Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Brimstone and Treacle (commissioned in 1975 but banned until 1987), the series Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), Blackeyes (1989) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). He also wrote novels, stage plays and screenplays. Seeing the Blossom, his final television interview, was published in 1994. He died in June 1994.