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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swami" data-source="post: 114800" data-attributes="member: 13">Oh absolutely, I think there is no doubt everyone involved was far too professional to allow any differences of opinion affect production. I have an excellent book written by Andrew Vine "The Last Of The Summer Wine", I thoroughly recommend you get a copy, because it gives a tremendous background on all aspects of the show, how they settled on Holmfirth as the location; how the show had to deal with apparent indifference on the part of the BBC in terms of its continued existence and the constant need to manage the actors as they aged or were no longer able to continue.In terms of Bill Owen's apparent clashes with initially Michael Bates and then Brian Wilde, politics was usually the flashpoint. Swami</blockquote>