 Flash Gordon for me is kind of mythical and strange because when I was a child I lived in Gold Fork, half between Don Gastron-Barnsley as a Yorkshire boy and in the local cinema every Saturday was Flash Gordon and it was Buster Crabbe who was a marvellous Flash Gordon. I mean he was always in pain when he got, you know, at the end of each episode when he was in trouble he expressed pain and of course he was a gold medal swimmer and a gold medal diver and all that, six or three and a damn good actor and it was in 20 episodes or 10 episodes you go each week to watch it and you wonder what would happen at the end of each one and it was bloody well done, you know, I remember that music and it was Flash Gordon had more effect on us as school children than anything else in cinema. Black and White he had those strange, those rockets going around, to lits as music, and all the way through the series there was always a slight moaning sound when you're on Mongo. So it was always sinister and the images were amazing and of course, you know, we then at the end of an episode, the railway in Bankman was outside, these great steam trains coming through and we'd run down the embankment, jumping, doing dastis, mint dares and you pretend to be, and I would pretend to be Volta. I would jump over the bushes down the embankment and I sprayed my leg I remember very badly because I thought I could fly and I never dreamt that eventually I'd actually play Volta in a film but I enacted it as a child.