“The blossom is out in full now, it’s plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it’s white. It’s the whitest, frothiest blossomest blossom that ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn’t seem to matter. But the now-ness of everything is absolutely wondrous.”

— Dennis Potter

Final television interview with Melvyn Bragg (5 April 1994)

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English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist 1935–1994

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