WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:26.280 Four separate Doctor Who stories you worked on. The first one was sort of late 1965, Galaxy 00:26.280 --> 00:36.120 4. What do you remember about that one? That's the one with the chandlers. I was too ambitious, 00:36.120 --> 00:49.840 I remember that. I tried to do too much, I tried to make it look too big. I wanted it 00:49.840 --> 01:02.960 to look like a planet, a plain planet with very little stuff on it, just this open vast 01:02.960 --> 01:12.280 colossal planet. And with some shots it worked, but it was too ambitious, I shouldn't have 01:12.280 --> 01:20.240 done that. So it looked a bit of a muddle sometimes. But what about the chandlers, what 01:20.240 --> 01:30.000 do you remember about designing the chandlers? Again I was too ambitious, always too ambitious. 01:30.000 --> 01:41.640 I wanted this little thing on the floor to be able to come up, out, grow, almost naturally. 01:41.640 --> 01:51.040 So this thing grew out of this little thing. But because of television and you haven't 01:51.040 --> 01:58.960 got time, you never saw the thing grow up out of nothing, it was just there and it didn't 01:58.960 --> 02:04.880 look natural. Some of the sets, the set photos that survived 02:04.880 --> 02:10.880 the spaceship interiors, they look very good designs as well. Is there anything specific 02:10.880 --> 02:22.840 you can remember about those interiors? Only that we hadn't got in contact, we weren't 02:22.840 --> 02:32.600 talking. The costume designer wasn't on the same wavelength with the set designer, so 02:32.600 --> 02:51.120 the costume designer produced three gold and silver women and my sets were all working 02:51.120 --> 02:58.680 things and just didn't match at all. The following story was actually just a single 02:58.680 --> 03:06.680 episode that featured the Daleks and you were co-designer on that with Ray Kuzik. What do 03:06.680 --> 03:11.880 you remember about that? I can remember bits and bobs, lots of small 03:11.880 --> 03:23.240 sets, nice atmosphere, pleasant, it was a pleasant show, not demanding in any way. 03:23.240 --> 03:29.040 The next Doctor Who story you worked on was the following year, that was The Smugglers 03:29.040 --> 03:34.280 directed by Julius Smith. What do you remember about that? 03:34.280 --> 03:43.960 Went very well, everybody seemed to like the designs. I think it was a successful show, 03:43.960 --> 03:48.840 what more do you want me to say? It's the one that was filmed in Cornwall, 03:48.840 --> 03:57.760 do you remember anything about Cornwall? Oh yes, I nearly drowned the whole team. It 03:57.760 --> 04:03.480 was difficult because we didn't have a big boat, we had a tiny boat and tried to make 04:03.480 --> 04:12.520 it look bigger. I don't know if it worked, but the weather got worse and worse and we 04:12.520 --> 04:20.840 had to go home before we got drowned, so we didn't get everything we should have done. 04:20.840 --> 04:27.560 I think that was one of the first times in Doctor Who that extensive location filming 04:27.560 --> 04:35.640 had been done, especially that far from London. You were actually involved with being out 04:35.640 --> 04:42.080 on location, were you? Yes, we did a lot of building on that. They 04:42.080 --> 04:48.080 got some very good shots and I don't know where they got the money from, but I think 04:48.080 --> 05:00.440 it must have cost more money than usual being spent on so much time and money on sets. So 05:00.440 --> 05:05.600 they did some very good shots. They look very good, what visual material 05:05.600 --> 05:09.200 does survive looks very good. It's a pity you've lost all that one because 05:09.200 --> 05:15.200 that was a good one. Your final encounter with the world of Doctor 05:15.200 --> 05:23.280 Who was a Patrick Troughton story a couple of years later called The Invasion. This is 05:23.280 --> 05:33.280 the one with the cyber planner, which is this object behind the door in Episode 1. What 05:33.280 --> 05:45.520 do you remember about that particular thing? Well I just remember it was about 6 foot tall 05:45.520 --> 05:56.680 and I just wanted to get as much different movement into it as possible, as many things 05:56.680 --> 06:08.080 working and nearly all of them worked. So that worked very well. It looked magic and 06:08.080 --> 06:13.800 mysterious and that worked. I understand you've been doing some writing 06:13.800 --> 06:20.360 over recent years as well. Would you like to tell us a little bit about writing? 06:20.360 --> 06:29.600 No, I mean, well yes, but it's not recent years. Once I left the BBC all my effort has 06:29.600 --> 06:39.520 been to write the book on how to change the world. And everything I've been doing ever 06:39.520 --> 06:48.320 since I left the BBC is how to get the book published and then how to use the book to 06:48.320 --> 06:57.920 change the world. So it took me 30 years to get the book published, which I did, and now 06:57.920 --> 07:04.360 it's just how to use the book to change the world. To end poverty it's called. 07:04.360 --> 07:08.840 Have you had any feedback at all from your book? 07:08.840 --> 07:23.720 Not really any. There's a group in the Midlands, I can't remember, which agrees, says it's 07:23.720 --> 07:30.760 right, it re-writes economics. It's a new economics. It says that trade and industry 07:30.760 --> 07:38.320 don't create wealth. Wealth is created by growing crops. And there is a group that agrees 07:38.320 --> 07:45.320 with that, whose name I can't remember at the moment. And we are working together to 07:45.320 --> 07:50.040 spread this idea and change the world. 07:50.040 --> 07:57.800 So finally, apart from driving your book and trying to change the world, are there any 07:57.800 --> 08:01.680 other unfulfilled ambitions that you've got? 08:01.680 --> 08:02.680 No. 08:02.680 --> 08:04.840 That's your singular ambition? 08:04.840 --> 08:10.760 That's all I think about. That's what I want to do. Yes, that's all. 08:10.760 --> 08:16.560 If you could somehow communicate with Richard Hunt from 40 years ago, would there be any 08:16.560 --> 08:25.080 advice you'd give that younger Richard Hunt? 08:25.080 --> 08:30.960 No I don't see. I don't see that he could have done anything different. He was what 08:30.960 --> 08:38.000 he was and he had to do what he did and he grew out of that quite properly. And I don't 08:38.000 --> 08:39.880 see he could have done it any differently. 08:39.880 --> 08:46.880 Okay, I think we're about finished. Thank you very much for your time. 08:46.880 --> 09:05.880 Pleasure. Thank you very much for asking.