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Questions 25
-30 'Then and now! …'
25. JC: What impact did you personally hope
that the Tomorrow People would have on the viewers?
EA: I think it has to be about treating anyone in the way that
you want to be treated.
26. JC: Do you think that children today
are very different from back in the 70's? In what way?
EA: I think what's happened in the interim is that prior to the
70's you had the view of the collective norm. Where Roger came from
really in terms of the 60's, power to the people, communal living and
people taking care of one another. Maybe he foresaw that this was changing
and the focus was becoming more individualistic.
I think we've had that now, recently it's all about me and I and
getting to the top never mind about other people. So you don't get the
same sort of collectives even in socialising. Now you don't get families
sitting down to a meal during the week. Things have changed and people
are now, like my daughters age who grew up in a much more materialistic
society which is much more about the individual. You have to fight quite
hard to break through that message with that age group.
You mentioned trainers earlier. I'm amazed at how crucial it is
for young people to have them and how you go to stores and the young
people are actually dictating to their parents what to have and if they
don't have it then that leads to you've got to get it. Either by taking
it from someone else or taking money. Just having mobile phones… there
has been a spate of newspaper articles on that; how everyone has to
have one and it encourages all sorts of theft and violence. It's all
about being self centred.
27. JC: Do you think the Tomorrow People's
message would have an influence today?
EA: I think it's a harder audience. If it was made again today
then they could make it in the way that young people would hear it today.
The original was too soft in the way it was told before. It would have
to have more impact.
JC: To be much faster… everything is so fast
these days.
AE: Yes. That's right. It would have to be… maybe that's what the
90's version tried to do. To be slick but the message got lost…
JC: We'd like it to be remade, or to be re-shown.
This is what we're hoping. There are so many 70's shows being remade
recently as well as all this nostalgia TV.
28. JC: Do you see the struggles of the TP
as being analogous to any other struggles going on then, or today? The
Trig is always seen as the United Nations etc.
EA: Hmmm I suppose, We've already talked about the current situation.
It's like reading Shakespeare. Although I'm not putting it in the same
league. There's truth in that today. In a way as human being we continue
on the same cycle. When we think of what has happened. The East-West
power struggles have changed. With the Berlin wall coming down and all
of those sorts of things. But when you think about how much we've moved
forward all we've really done is to set up another set of powers another
set of barriers and struggles. It's human beings…
JC: Typical Saps!
EA: Well exactly. If only we were all homo superior!
29. JC: This is my extra question. I don't
know whether you remember it specifically but at the end of the story
'A much needed holiday' you push Nick into the swimming pool. I always
wondered whether it was in the script because he looked so shocked.
EA: Did I? That's probably a Roger idea. Probably was in the script.
I wouldn't usually push people in a pool because I'm not a very good
swimmer.
30. JC: So what is your favourite memory from
the show in general?
EA: I don't know that I have a favourite. There were lots of nice
things in doing the show in terms of friendships. I remember Burnham
Beeches. Going there to film. The feel of fellow actors on location
pretending that we were really there. I can't remember which story I
think it was one with Tyso in it. Nicki will probably know.
Most of my memories now, apart from the particular things we've
talked about are just about the experience of working on the show. The
people...we had some tremendous fun. For me I travelled on the North
London line to get there and one of the things that reminds me of the
Tomorrow People is landmarks like Teddington Station and driving towards
Richmond.
JC: As a child I used to write endless letters
to Thames TV but now I work in Teddington and pass it everyday so it's
like a dream come true.
EA: Exactly. You have a vision of what things will be like before
you go somewhere like the studios, but everything changes... I think
it was sad when that closed and stopped being used.
JC: Thank you very much for answering all
the questions.
EA: You are most welcome...
The End.
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