Also interviewed are Dame Judi Dench, Arthur Miller, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Peter Hall, Sir Tom Stoppard, Vanessa Redgrave, Fiona Shaw, Stephen Daldry, David Hare, Harold Pinter, and Alan Bennett.
Nearly all the playwrights who can fill larger theatres, at least in the West End, are either pensioners (Tom Stoppard, Michael Frayn, Alan Bennett and Harold Pinter) or they are dead.