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The Edge - Series One, Episode 13

Television (Full Length Episode) – 1993

In Romeo and Juliet the modern day cast wear Hugo Boss suits and the set is dominated by a photocopy of the interior of the Sistine Chapel.
– Presenter Mary McCallum
I think the best idea is to just take two weeks off work.
– Film Festival director Bill Gosden's advice to festival goers
Whose idea was it that the word dyslexia should be so hard to spell, and why is it that the word 'lisp' has to have an 's' in it?
– Jon Bridges performing as a comedian in Facial DBX
When I was a little boy, one of my favourite things to do was to go to the movies, especially the Cinerama movies, and I’m talking Ben-Hur, 2001: A Space Odyssey (I’m a child of the 60s, 50s actually). I liked to sit in the front row, and get completely overwhelmed by it, and transported. That’s what I want to do with plays when I direct.
– Romeo and Juliet director Michael Hurst