Tell me about that.

Well...

You know, the script arrived with a motorbike delivery, you know, and the man said, I'm staying, you've got to read it and give it back to me.

For secrecy? I know people do that.

I don't know why.

And I read it, I loved it.

And I thought, I know what part they're going to ask me to play or to audition for.

Yeah.

-which everybody remembers

... we had the, the title track, what we thought would be the title track of the music, while we were running on the beach to do the opening sequence, playing to us on, you know, as we ran.

And, um, actually, that's not the music that was, that ended up because Vangelis wrote-- When the film was cut and finished and put to bed, I was having dinner with David Puttnam, the producer, and Vangelis burst into this restaurant and said, "You must come.

I've got the mus- I've w- written another, another song for the film, another bit." And David said, "Well, it's too late because we've, we've..." He said, "No, no, come." So we all piled into his van.

He had this amazing van.

Mm

... that I was, [laughs] I loved playing it 'cause, you know, they're much more interesting to play than goody-goodies.

Um, but I finished filming it, and they, and they, they, they cut it together, and they showed me episode one, and I thought, "My God, I'll probably never work again because it, he was so awful, this man." And yet when it went out, um, it was so popular they wanted me to make the next series.

Yeah.

I went, well, I wanted to go to America.

I was 18, and I thought, "I must go to Hollywood and see what it's like." So I didn't have enough money to go there, so I thought, "I'd see if our grandad will lend me the money." So I booked to have tea with him, uh, in his house in Richmond, and, uh, and his housekeeper said, "Come in," you know.

"He's ready for you." And I, I walked in, and there was Grand- Uh, I remember he was smoking a cigar, and he had a fag going and a pipe.

Just-

In fact, you know, Keith was done for allowing people to smoke dope in his house.

In those days, that w- would send you in, you know, to prison.

And he, he came out of jail when Dad got him o- out on bail into Dad's chambers and said, uh, "I'd like to prosecute the Queen." And Dad said, "What, what do you mean?" He said, "Well, last night in jail, I was offered a spliff, a very good one by the way."