Description | Page 1 Titled Directly commisioned by BBC, notes on the smell of Britain Page 3 Notes on a Swedish trampafoil Page 5 -13 Five principle characters for the 'Sea' Page 13a List of different projects includes Humphrey Davey project Page 15 Idea for something called Crofty and something called district council, with ideas for characters Page17 -19 Polzeath Vigilantes Page 21 Notes entitled 'Golf Club' Page 25, 27 Dialogue about filming at Rock, Meryl Streep Page 29, Phone numbers Page 31- 45 Starting to work out what the story is scene by scene lots of ideas, potential titles 'Eaten by Ants', 'Fabulous Five' notes finish with Columbian Bamboo Houses Page 47 Point reached where three episodes are outlined The Mine , The Farm and The Beach. Page 55 Title Canute, Beach cafe Page 57 Working out of potential story Page 63 Names for characters Page 67-87 Working out plot Page 89 Writing directly about Cornwall European funding with relation to ideas for his piece, description of what he wants this series to be. Page 101 ,103 Idea about two brothers Simon and Curtis possibly the same as preceding Page 115 Three brothers development of piece featuring Simon and Curtis with a list of character descriptions. Page 116 Piece retitled 'Swimming with sharks' after first meeting with Hilary Salmon Page 117 Comment on the title on the preceding page Page 121 -123 Notes on a hairy man and working out a story Page 125 Ideas for making a film (without BBC?) Page 127 More working out of stories for the same series Page141 Notes Fate, Bollocks , Driving the (golf) ball Page 145 Notes titled Nixon Page 149 Lobster tag details, a Kevin tag protected by law first tag Darke and his wife ever found. Page 153- 157 Parish hall Committee material Page161, Geology notes, quartz etc page 163 -215 Notes to do with miners notes for piece called Underground, material from interview with Mark Kashmeric who worked at South Crofty mine until it closed. Page 217-9 Pages of phone numbers page 225-243 More mining notes page 245 Parish Council notes about Mawgan Porth and dog bins. page 249 Notes that read 'Beachcombers life is governed by the tide and wind' - like work done with John Angarrack about Cornish History Back page contact details and lobster tag numbers.
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Admin History | Nick had a meeting with Hilary Salmon with the BBC for the three part series these are notes are research for this, it was however never made. Sea was one of the working titles Darke gave this piece of work. |