Thread:Kelvin 101/@comment-44287795-20191103063651/@comment-44287795-20191103150258

Thanks Kelvin, much appreciated! It's well worth watching Ross's documentary. He basically plays the whole of the episode set against a personal trauma in his own life (a car crash which unfolded at the same time). He contacted me to ask if I'd OK for him to use my ep like this and of course I agreed. I was intrigued - I couldn't really see what he was getting at or how it would work but I was really impressed when I saw the finished piece. Let me know what you think! He also wrote an interesting article about it for the Telegraph - if you google Ross Sutherland - the poetry of EastEnders - or Missing Episode - you should find it.

And yes, I do title every episode and always have. Tony Holland used to insist that writers do that in the very early days as he felt it gave us a spine for the episode in question. As with almost anything the great man said, I agree. No one on the regular team does it now I don't think which I regret a bit - I think it gives something to the episode but as the title's never seen of course it's occasionally difficult to justify!

Also, and at the risk of sounding more than a little bit sad, I do keep old scripts but in the format in which I write them - in long hand on two sides of a single sheet of coloured A4 card! That causes almost as much mirth among most of the other writers as my sitting there trying to dream up titles! Best, Rob