Andrew Cranston

I mean, it was interesting.

I had quite old parents who were born in the 1920s, and my dad was in the Second World War.

And they talked a lot about, you know, their childhood and their... So you instantly enter a kind of other time, almost pre-electric, you know, in a lot of cases.

Yeah.

And that's within a kind of living experience.

And so I find that interesting what you carry about with you inside.

I mean, when I was young, I remember TV was where you really experienced anything cultural.

Seeing Dennis Potter's TV plays and how he really communicated that idea of sort of a world that you have inside you.

You know, there's the present, but there's this sort of past that's kind of sometimes can just rear up, you know, inside you that you can be reminded of something at school.

Yeah, totally.

I mean, Blue Remembered Hills, when I saw it, I thought, oh, my God, the adults know what we're up to.

You know, it seems like... And, of course, it had a kind of Enid Blyton-ish look, but then, you know, it's 10 weeks later, they're adults, but they're kids, you know?

There's a sort of instant leap of faith that you make with it.

But, yeah, the darkness of...

Something like childhood, you know, where there's all kinds of quite dangerous and sort of, you know, it was mind blowing really, you know.

What music or other audio do you listen to while you're working?

I've got a very Catholic taste and sort of, you know, really meant to say in Glasgow, parts of Glasgow.

But I listen to a lot of ambient music, sometimes total silence for the first couple of hours to get into the kind of zone.

Right.

And then, you know, Brian Eno, things like that.