How did the partnership between yourself and Martin Smith come about?
Well, my partnership with Martin has been ongoing since my entering film until today really because we are in regular touch and although we don t work as a team we ve worked together on many projects over the years. Martin is a very talented young man, he s 60 now and he started out as a film projectionist in a cinema, then ran an editing establishment for many years in Wardour St called David Maden Associates which is still going strong. I d describe him as an honest socialist, a rare fish these days although we don t see eye to eye on many issues, he s not a Marxist and I d describe myself as someone trying to be a Marxist. Nevertheless we ve never had a bitter word, we get on very well and I think I m the only British Communist he knows personally. When the Soviet Union collapsed 10 years ago he got seized with the idea about making a documentary about how I felt about it as a Communist, it has been a traumatic 10 years without a doubt but not quite as traumatic as the discovery of
