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We needed sets basically in areas where we either could not find a location that would do, we built the old hospital because we just couldn't find a room of the scale and the proportions that we needed for the old hospital, within a shooting area of Stamford and it didn't make any sense to travel an enormous way for a short, it was about a day's shooting, so it was uneconomic. It was simpler to build it as a set and put it with other sets.

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We built Lidgate House because we knew from the start that that was going to be impossible to find. It had to be a small town house, there was alot of dialogue in it and we knew that we couldn't really, we were very unlikely to find it for a start, we'd be talking about asking a family to move out and strip their house out, totally redecorate it and take it over for a few weeks which wasn't that viable a proposition and if it had to be in, if it had to be a small town house there would be an awful lot of difficulties with the sheer logistics of working there.

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So we built that, we built the old hospital and we built the Green Dragon interior because that had to have a billiard room and no, we couldn't begin to think of anywhere that would contain a billiard room that was of the scale and style that we wanted um, and it was decided that we would shoot the exterior, make something work for an exterior and then match it to an interior set so we would get the feel that we wanted from it. So those were the 3.

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Annotation 1: In pen, there are lines surrounding the text from 'We needed...' to uneconomic on the eighth line. To the top right of the surrounded text, the number '13' is written and circled. In pencil, the whole text is also surrounded, but up to 'other sets' on the ninth line.

Annotation 2: To the left-hand side of the text, 'Sets 6a' is hand-written in pencil, and beneath that, 'Part 4 go to p.20.' is hand-written in pen.

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Annotation 5: There is a hand-written pencilled 'y' written over the top of the 'I' in the word 'Lidgate' on the second line. To the left of the text, 'Lydgate house 6b' is hand-written in pencil.

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Annotation 7: There is a pen line on the left and side of the text surrounding the text from 'So we built...' to 'were the 3'.

Annotation 8: To the left of the text, in pencil, 'sets- Losp. Green Dragon' are written. '6c' is written and circled beneath that. The page number in the top right-hand corner is also circled in pencil.

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The words from 'we couldn't...' to we wanted'

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