Poliakoff speaks

Writer and director Stephen Poliakoff interviewed by Richard Brooks in The Stage.

Write first for the theatre and only then try TV and movies. This was the advice that Stephen Poliakoff was given as a young man and today he believes it is just as valid. “In fact, I reckon it was the best bit of advice I was ever given,” says the 53-year-old writer, even though in the past decade he is much better known and more highly praised as a television dramatist.