Paul Watson clearly revelled in being one of television’s great maverick programme makers, particularly enjoying, he once told me, a review which noted: “He comes with trouble as Rod Hull came with Emu.”
One of his first big rows was while a student at the Royal College of Art film school in the 60s. His tutor, Iris Murdoch, told him bluntly that she would fail him if he submitted his proposed thesis on “The Cruelty of Tom & Jerry”. Which, of course, he duly did.
