32:51 - 33:12 Happened to read this very recently in a book called 'Novelists on the Novel'. Ford Madox Ford ('The Good Soldier') writes about Joseph Conrad's work ('Heart of Darkness', 'Nostromo'): 'One unalterable rule that we had for the rendering of conversations - for genuine conversations that are an exchange of thought, not interrogatives or statements of fact - was that no speech of one character could ever answer the speech that goes before it. This is almost invariably the case in real life where few people listen, because they are always preparing for their next speeches...'
I’ve never rated him that highly as a writer but here he seems like a normal, happy human being. Compared to what he’s like now, it’s like night and day. The guy is a one-man warning against the dangers of transphobic radicalisation.
When was this filmed? Wonder if Charlie was just begining to write Black Mirror and had found himself struggling a bit so came up with the deliciously devious plan of getting the BBC to pay for gathering together a collection of TV writers so he could pick their brains and take notes. All whilst paying him too! Well it certainly worked 🤣🤣