‘You didn’t go there to get your hair cut!’ – how we made Desmond’s

‘Can you calm it down a bit?’ … the cast of Desmond’s. Photograph: Ronald Grant

Trix Worrell, creator and writer

When I was at the National Film and Television School, Channel 4 was running a writers’ competition. Unbeknown to me, one of the actors in a play I’d written and directed sent my script off. When I got the call saying I’d won, I went, “Oh, fuck off!” and hung up, thinking it was a joke.