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David Blair. As a result I'm sure you appreciate I take great pride in my flag. Gosh- Sorry Me again. I should add, I suppose, that I wrote Bert and Dickie and I apologise for the late joining of the board.
I'm on a deadline for another BBC film and it's all a bit tight! Anyway, I'm so happy that so many of you liked the film. I'm jolly proud of it and the response has been fantastic. What is particularly gratifying is that on Facebook and Twitter and other social networking media, a very large and very young audience has indicated its approval of course you may all be extremely sprightly in which case, apologies.
This means a great deal to me, though, because I really wanted Bert and Dickie to recall different times and they were different, with different values, despite a couple of reviewers finding it odd that I should suggest such Clearly, a younger cross section of society will most notice those differences and are perhaps the ones who most need to answer the question the drama poses. Anyway, to get specific again, AlbiesGran, thanks for writing and you have me bang to rights on a character responding to 'How are you?
Extremely unlikely and one which slipped through the net. I hate anachronisms of speech such as this and really try hard not to slip up. But slip I did. He was trying to calm Bert and said "No pressure Ah, music I adore music.
That she was alive and singing in this period was enough for me to grant myself artistic licence in terms of which of her recordings I chose to use. Again, I hoped that viewers would be swept up in the glory of the voice and the music and allow the time jump!
Right, I'm off to my other script. Thanks again everyone for watching and taking the trouble to comment. It makes a huge difference to writers to me, certainly to know what viewers are thinking. The praise makes the pain of creation worth it and it's not without its moments of discomfort and the taps of reprimand are a useful check on overbearing arrogance!
Many thanks for a very moving production. I worked for Bert Bushnell at his Maidenhead boat yard as a teenager in the sixties and rowed out of Maidenhead rowing club for the Grammar School, so it all meant a great deal to me. I am also a camera operator working on TV dramas and feature films so even more interest there! An upside down flag is one of my bete noirs but I didn't spot it! My only sadness of the production was that the actors were not rowers and I winced a few times at their brave efforts to show the boat moving with speed and agility.
But nonetheless a wonderful production. Well done. Dear Jamie Thanks for that. Just dropped back in to see if anyone had been saying anything and was delighted to read your comment. It's thrilling to think that those around Bert who actually knew him, are able to dip back into the rich past around him and remember such a great character.
As to the lack of actual rowers The important thing is not winning, Usain, it's taking part It's quite a good story. Quite good. Well, there's a class thing going on, and that's always interesting. Plus there's a bit of adversity to overcome. Well, Bert has a pretty sweetheart called Margaret, but she gets banished to Glasgow by Bert's dad because she's getting in the way of his rowing. Oh yes, they both have difficult fathers. But then, doesn't everyone?
It's not Chariots of Fire though, because God doesn't come into it, nor antisemitism. And it's about rowing, which doesn't have the power to stir the soul that running has though if you've been turned into a blubbering wreck by combinations of Redgrave, Pinsent, Cracknell, Foster etc at four-year intervals, you may disagree. To be honest, I think the backstory is more interesting — how the Games could possibly have happened at all in And in the other events that they included, such as the art competitions, I would like to have known something about John Copley, who doesn't feature in the film but gets an endnote.
Matt Smith on pain behind Olympics' Bert and Dickie "I've got blisters on my hands, legs and just everywhere". Outtake: Matt Smith and Sam Hoare fall into the river! Duration: Bert and Dickie's first row together Duration: See all clips from Bert and Dickie 6. Full cast and crew credits. Wed 25 Jul TV blog: William Ivory. Bushnell family photos and behind the scenes.
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