Stephen Tompkinson: Priest, TV Journalist From Hell, Grimethorpe | Parkinson on BBC
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Stephen Tompkinson wanted to be a priest when he was a child. A captive audience three times on a Sunday, a whacking great collection plate and a nice frock. It all seemed very glamorous. Then came cricket, girls and alcohol, not necessarily in that order. In this conversation with Michael Parkinson, he talks about playing a TV journalist from hell in Drop the Dead Donkey, about the real incidents that inspired Damien's worst behaviour including a South American death squad who had to reshoot an execution because the camera crew arrived late, and about his grandmother, a devoted fan prone to mis-speaking who rang him during the 1986 election campaign very worried about all the smear tests they had been doing on Neil Kinnock. He also talks about Brassed Off, filmed in Grimethorpe where his father worked, and about spending time with the community there to make sure the script was true to what had actually happened when the pit closed. Pete Postlethwaite played his father, and met his
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