talked about it before in public and so part of him didn't want to say anything but another part of him did and in the end he did it, because he wants the story to be told and he trusted us to tell it in a humane way. When it came to the archive material you must have had an embarrassment of riches, it must have been where do I start? Kevin : Not really actually. There was a lot of stuff. What we did was get an archive researcher, who covered every base and went to every archive in the world - Russia, Poland, Kenya all over the place and some of them had stuff and some of them didn't but most of them had the same material and there were two reels, little bits and pieces here and there, a couple of minutes from the BBC that were good and so on, but then the two real saving graces were the ABC material from America, cos they'd kept their live coverage and other people hadn't, and because also there was the great thing that Jim McKay the reporter covered from morning right through the night and you can see him getting tireder and his beard growing and all of that so that is effective obviously in building the tension. But then a second stroke of luck was finding the out takes for the official Olympic film that was called "Visions of Eight" which was made of that Olympics