ANDREW (WRITER): Um, what happens to the script after the actors get hold of it? It's very difficult when you've got a classic novel like Middlemarch because they've all got their copies and all the actors come along and they say oh there's this wonderful bit here um, why don't I get to say it you know because my character says it in the book er, and, and, so there's um, there's a certain amount of, of that, that really has to be resisted because you're trying to distill the essence of the book in to it's essentials and you, you can't have all the good lines in, in the book.

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Ref Code: PM-73 Title: Transcript extract from an interview with Andrew Davies, Screenwriter for Middlemarch, p. 93. Date: 1993 Format: .png Source: ITM-7963 Transcripts of interviews with members of the cast and crew of Middlemarch (BBC/WGBH, 1994). Edited for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Educational Developments/BFI (British Film Institute) Education package Screening Middlemarch: 19th Century Novel to 90s Television. Held at BFI, London, UK. http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceArchive/110008677