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Prepare to feel nostalgic, because we're about to transport you back to your childhood... Shows like Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet were a huge part of growing up for a lot of us, and they were all made right here in Berkshire by the AP Films company. Stephen La Rivière is a filmmaker who worked on the recent Thunderbirds revival, and has put together a documentary in which the original AP Films team revisit their workshop in Slough on the eve of its demolition. He joined BBC Radio Berkshire's Sarah Walker and explained what it was like visiting the sets of such iconic shows. Stephen La Rivière: "By the peak of their operation after the first season of Thunderbirds and they'd made a film called Thunderbirds Are Go, they had five or six units. 150-200 people working there. "The technology didn't change that much, it was just the components that got smaller. "They were a group of filmmakers who wanted to go to the cinema and make these big action epics...the people behind the scenes approached it like they were genuine films they were making. "They had enormous sets."
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