Tristram Powell (1940-2024) was an outstanding programme-maker, a director of documentaries and dramas for television, films for the big screen and platform performances for Jewish Book Week.
His output was hugely impressive in quantity, quality and variety. What was also remarkable was that, over seven decades, I never heard of a disruptive encounter. His style was to be unfussed, congenial and, when necessary, politely implacable.
He worked with Alan Bennett, Michael Palin, Andrew Davies, Philip Roth, Samuel Beckett, Nigel Williams and Harold Pinter. His own wide
