AW devised and wrote the paper.
Devised by David Frost, and written by Cook, John Cleese and Graham Chapman, Rimmer anticipated the absurdity of "interactive" politics, and the inevitable triumph of style over substance as politicians learnt to control TV.
Among the line-up are a play about Robert Mugabe, one about high-school shootings in America and, perhaps most intriguing, a piece looking at the sex-tourist industry that was part devised, part written by the young playwright Debbie Tucker Green.
KS devised hypothesis, analyzed data, wrote methods and contributed to discussion, YL devised hypothesis and wrote results and discussion, SP and SK devised hypothesis and contributed to discussion, JP, BK and JS reviewed/ edited the manuscript and contributed to discussion.
It's a programme that defies categorisation, with intimate one-to-one experiences, social gaming (organised by Hide and Seek's Alex Fleetwood), puppetry, devised work and plays – some written by writers attached to Soho theatre – all rubbing shoulders.
The New Wave critics usually expressed disdain for carefully devised (and in this case precisely written by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost) products of "the French tradition of quality" like this, but even the combative François Truffaut placed "La Traversée de Paris" among the best films of its year, alongside Bresson's "Man Escaped" and Renoir's "Elena and Her Men".
One of their missions would be to devise software and write information-retrieval programs that would enable the agency to make sense of the data routinely sucked up by satellite and other interception devices.
To successfully complete the course learners had to devise, conduct and write up their own piece of research.
