The following set of pages contains recordings from an interview which took place on 10th May 1990 between John Cook and Dennis Potter.

Parts of this interview have been used in John Cook's book "Dennis Potter: A Life on Screen" published by Manchester University Press in 1995 (and in its second edition in 1998). John allowed me to publish the early extracts on this site in 1999 and since then extracts have appeared as an appendix to The Passion of Dennis Potter, an international collection of essays on Potter, edited by Vernon Gras and John Cook.

A preface to these interviews, written by Dr. John Cook especially for this web site and based on his introduction to Gras, V. & Cook, J. (eds. (2000), may be accessed by clicking here.

If you wish to hear audio versions of these extracts, they are now available in .mp3 format for the first time from links within the table below. They have so far only been heard by John Cook, Sarah Potter, myself and some of John's and my students.

The .mp3 files were digitised from the original cassette tapes which John Cook used in his 1990 interview with Potter. The quality of the original tapes was limited by the technology of the times and by the context in which the recording took place. As you can see from the table below some of these files represent very large downloads and are not of high audio quality.

Before you try to play them, it is recommended that you turn your speaker volumes up high to get the best of the voices.