A: Now let’s go back to your first novel, Rag Doll．When did you write   ?
B: Rag Doll, yes．I wrote it in 1960, a year after I left school．
A: How old were you then?
B: Um, eighteen? Yes, eighteen, because a year later I went to IndonesiA．
A: Mm．And of course it was your       (experience) in Indonesia that inspired your first film Eastern Moon．
B: Yes, that’s right, although I didn’t  (actual) make Eastern Moon until 1978.
A: And you worked in television for a time too?
B: Yes, I started making documentaries for television in 1973, when I was thirty．That was after I gave up farming．
A: Farming?
B: Yes, that’s right．You see, I      (stay) in Indonesia for eight years．I met my wife there in 1965, and we came back and bought a farm   the west of England, in 1970．It was really kind of experiment ．
A: But you gave up three years later．
B: Well, yes．You see it was very hard work, and I was also very busy (work) on my second novel, the Cold Earth,   came out in 1975
A: Yes, that was a best-seller,     it?
B: Yes, it was, and that’s why only two years after that I was able to give televisionwork and fix my attention on films and that sort of thing．