Скачать или смотреть 🎙️ From Student to TV Scholar: Professor John R. Cook on Meeting Dennis Potter & Sydney Newman 🚀

What happens when a shy postgraduate sneaks a microphone into the BBC and ends up face-to-face with TWO legends of British television? In our season-finale podcast, media historian Professor John R. Cook (Glasgow Caledonian University) rewinds to the early ’90s and recounts:
• His first, nerve-jangling interview with Dennis Potter – the maverick behind The Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven – and the lightning-bolt answer that made him rethink TV drama forever.
• A rare sit-down with Sydney Newman, the radical Canadian producer who dreamed up Doctor Who and ripped up the BBC’s rulebook.
• The unbelievable moment when Potter challenged Cook’s toughest question… and the handwritten note Newman slipped into his notebook.
• How those encounters kick-started Cook’s 30-year mission to uncover lost scripts, forgotten archives, and the real stories behind Britain’s golden age of TV.

⌛ Timestamps
0:00 Intro & the myth of “unreachable” heroes
3:12 Landing the Potter interview (a phone box & pure cheek)
10:45 Inside Potter’s BBC office – more ashtrays than awards
20:58 Newman on inventing Doctor Who (“No bug-eyed monsters… well, maybe one”)
34:00 Lessons for today’s streamers
48:30 Rapid-fire Q&A & Cook’s advice to rookie interviewers

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📚 Dive deeper:
• Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen – Cook’s definitive biography
• Newly discovered Potter script (Forest of Dean Archive) – story coming soon
• BBC archive clip: Sydney Newman on “risk-taking TV”

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