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Richard Eyre, artistic director
of the National, on Stephen
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Elvis Costello, Telegraph
If you do an episode of Special Branch, it takes six weeks and you get paid once. If I did situation comedy, I could do six episodes in six weeks and get paid six times. I sort of went off drama for that reason.
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