Question

A: Now let’s go back to your first novel, Rag Doll．When did you write 1. ?

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 2. (experience) in Indonesia that inspired your first film Eastern Moon．

B: Yes, that’s right, although I didn’t 3.(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 4. (stay) in Indonesia for eight years．I met my wife there in 1965, and we came back and bought a farm 5. the west of England, in 1970．It was really 6.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 7. (work) on my second novel, the Cold Earth, 8. came out in 1975

A: Yes, that was a best-seller, 9. it?

B: Yes, it was, and that’s why only two years after that I was able to give 10. televisionwork and fix my attention on films and that sort of thing．

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