Interviewer: How old were you then?
Writer: Um, eighteen? Yes, eighteen, because a year later I went to Indonesia.
Interviewer: Mm. And of course it was your experience in Indonesia that inspired your film Eastern Moon.
Writer: Yes, that’s right, although I didn’t actually make Eastern Moon until 1978.
Interviewer: And you worked in television for a time too.
Writer: Yes, I started making documentaries for television in 1973, when I was thirty. That was after I gave up farming.
Interviewer: Farming?
Writer: Yes, that’s right. You see, I stayed in Indonesia for eight years. I met my wife there in 1965, and after we came back we bought a farm in the West of England, in 1970. A kind of experiment, really.
Interviewer: But you gave it up three years later.
Writer: Well, yes. You see it was very hard work, and I was also very busy working on my second novel, The Cold Earth, which came out in 1975.
Interviewer: Yes, that was a best-seller, wasn’t it?
Writer: Yes, it was, and that’s why only two years after that I was able to give up television work and concentrate on films and that sort of thing. And after that...
Telephone Conversation:
Shop Assistant: Harling’s Hardware.
Customer: Hello. I’d like to buy a new fridge. I can’t afford a very expensive one, and it mustn’t be more than 140 cm high.
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