Historical accuracy is important but in um, in essence rather than in detail. I think that it's not, I mean detail is important but I think it's far more important to understand the flavour of the period rather than carefully reproduce any particular small items from it. The, I mean the way I see it is that the whole, the

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Whole drama of any period production, contemporary or period is that it's about um, it's about real people and it's about people that we would identify with and it's about situations that we might recognise and if you don't try to understand the period and the restrictions and their, the living of the period, then you haven't got a hope of relating that to anything that we would understand now and I know that sounds um, that sounds rather grand but I suppose what I'm saying really is that a tea cup is less important to me than understanding when people had tea, how much tea cost, whether it was a, a very extravagant thing to do, whether certain classes had it um, who would have done it.

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