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Marc Platt visited Christopher Barry at home to discuss the script for Downtime (1995).
Recording a scene with Victoria (Deborah Watling) and the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney); and Platt’s letter about Jonathan Miller’s Alice in Wonderland.
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