Channel 4 that involved travelling for weeks, I can recall one dinner as if it was yesterday. The director, in the doghouse for being away from home so much, said he wanted to make a pond in the garden. His children would love it, he would win brownie points with his wife, and the nagging undercurrent of unhappiness rippling through his life would be soothed away by balmy pond waters fringed with flowers. However, there was one small hitch: he
