[on the death of Inspector Morse]: All good things come to an end. I am proud to have done it. When I saw him (Morse) dead I had a mental flashback of the fifteen years that we had been doing it. All the stories, all the various locations and the different actors and it all ends with a dead human being in the morgue. But in a way I think it is a good thing he died rather than driving off into the Oxford sunset. Supposing he had just retired and gone to live in Lyme Regis. In a couple of years ITV would have said, 'Do one more and we'll set it in Lyme Regis', and trouble is I probably would have been tempted.
