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this is salford grammar school. yeah. even — i'm talking about primary school and, you know. salford grammar school was, of course, later, and there i was in all the school plays and did art and all that stuff. because, obviously we were middle class, my old man being a doctor... ..i went to the local schools, local primary school, working class kids, 90—odd percent, salford grammar school, very much the same. and so i kind of had a very broad sense of society, i suppose, of community and character, but character is what it's been all about, from the word go, just observing people. so it's a sort of a cultured upbringing, to an extent. your creative... your own personal creativity, encouraged by your parents? well, that's a very interesting question. i mean, it would be very difficult not to say, that in many respects, my folks weren't philistines, because they kind of were. there's culture and there's culture. i mean, they used to... ..they actually at times went to stratford, and they went to the halle. so you could say

well, that's even — i'm talking about primary school and, you know, salford grammar school was, of courseall the school plays and did art and all that stuff. because, obviously we were middle class, my old man being a doctor, i went to the local schools, local primary school, working class kids, 90—odd percent, salford grammar school, very much the same. and so, i kind of had a very broad sense of society, i suppose, of community and character, but character is what it's been all about, from the word go, just observing people. so, it's a sort of a cultured upbringing, to an extent. was your creative, your own personal creativity, encouraged by your parents? well, that's a very interesting question. i mean, it would be very difficult not to say that, in many respects, my folks weren't philistines, because they kind of were. there's culture and there's culture. i mean, they used to — they actually, at times, went to stratford and they went to the halle, so you could say there were cultural. on the other hand, anything that was, in inverted commas, arty, or what we would identify as avant—ga

and, you know, salford grammar school was of course later in their way — there i was in all the schoolviously we were middle—class, i went to the local schools, local primary school, working kids, 90—odd percent salford drama school very much the same, so i kind of had a very broad sense of society, i suppose, of community and character, but character is what it has been all about from the word go, just observing people. so it's a sort of cultured upbringing, to a certain extent, was your creativity encouraged by your parents? well, that's a very interesting question. i mean, it would be very difficult not to say that in many respects my folks were not philistines, because they kind of were. there's culture, and there's culture. i mean they actually at times went to stratford, and they went to the halle, so you could say there were cultural, but on the other hand, anything that was in inverted commas arty of what we would identify as avant garde, they were horrified by, but apart from anything else, from an early age, i was drawing people, and, on the whole, you could describe what i w