I’d been a fan of Potter since The Singing Detective – loved and still love his unapologetic individualism, his refusal to compromise – and thought the interview, which was interrupted several times by Potter taking draughts from a morphine-loaded glass of champagne, one of the bravest things I’d ever seen. I have clear memories of watching Melvyn Bragg’s final interview with the playwright and screenwriter Dennis Potter on Channel 4 in the April of 1994, just three months before Potter’s death from pancreatic cancer. The term, then, was pure drama, another stray trace of the Stenmark twins. The most interesting thing the guide had to say was the fact that the temperature employed in cryostorage does not actually approach zero K. A physicist named Kelvin was mentioned, he was the K in the term. This was rote narration, with plotted stops and restarts, and it concerned a unit of temperature called absolute zero, which is minus two hundred and seventy-three point one five degrees Celsius. The guide explained the meaning of the term Zero K.
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