I wonder how much prompting the interviewer did, and over what medium the interview took place. The article reads as though it were one continuous quote, and while I have gotten the impression that Anthony Head is pretty intelligent, to recollect that much, that coherently, would be a difficult feat to pull off in an in-person interview without stopping or stammering.

Then again, it was not Head who brought Giles' pronounced nervous stutter to Buffy - maybe he really is that collected an interviewee.

Mercenary | September 08, 12:17 CET

Yeah 'speaks' is maybe a smidge misleading there, despite what the byline says I suspect this is a written piece from ASH (or maybe it really has been edited from a questions and answers format ?). A lot of the Sunday/weekend papers will have a one page feature like "A Day in the Life..." written by a celebrity and relating something personal to them.

Saje | September 08, 12:24 CET

The part about the cemetery bothered me. I always prefer old fashioned cemeteries with headstones over "memorial gardens," although neither can be called pleasant.

xMadxScientistx | September 08, 14:10 CET

Aww, that's sweet!

Apparently he was destined to have cemeteries in his life - the one they used to play hide-and-seek in, all the ones from "Buffy," the ones they visted in "True Horror" and of course the one where his grandmother is buried.

My, what an odd thing to say! Ah well - I'm in an odd mood.

ShadowQuest | September 08, 17:19 CET

Winner: 2008's Most British Headline.

Pointy | September 08, 17:32 CET

That's a lovely article - but also kind of spooky - I live in a Victorian cottage opposite a graveyard and a church (also St Mary's!! I kid you not )

I haven't found any jesters buried in the churchyard though and we've had no visits from JCB's either. You know if Joss ever wanted to shoot 'Ripper' they can always come to my place - ASH would feel right at home.

The Do That Girl | September 08, 19:59 CET

I can imagine it was edited into smoothness.

"My, what an odd thing to say! Ah well - I'm in an odd mood" And this is news, exactly how?

Tony's "Only oen rbick deep;" reminds me of one guy's reaction when I told him I'd grown up in a brick house. He asked if the bricks were over frame or over cinder block, I said neither, and he said that was not likely, since that would make the walls very thin. Different perspectives.

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DaddyCatALSO | September 08, 22:04 CET

Most houses over here are built from brick but, equally, most of them are built in two layers with a cavity in between so a single thickness wall is very thin. Cavity wall insulation was the "big thing" growing up (basically they drilled holes then squirted foam stuff between the layers of brick to conserve heat and save energy - who knows what it did to us BTW, this was in the 60s and 70s, back when even cigarettes probably didn't give you cancer ;) and a single-layer brick house would be pretty hard to keep cool in summer and warm in winter - it's an unusual and, as ASH says, cheap/shoddy building technique.

Sounds like a decent time he had growing up, good for him (we used to play in a graveyard too but I didn't live in a Victorian cottage ;).

Saje | September 08, 22:36 CET