I transcribed these from the two video clip interviews that BBC has on their Rockface site. I hope I've captured it accurately. (Well, as accurately as possible for a Canadian trying to deal with an Irish/British accent. See I don't even know which it is! *g*)

Brendan explains more about the characters and storylines

"Well it's set within that community and people have their ordinary lives as well as working with the team, cus the team's a voluntary thing.

"So, ah, he's [BC's character Douglas MacLanahan] the production manager of a paper mill, a big paper mill just outside of town, which we actually use here. A lot of the characters are based on real mountain, you know, rescue guys and the kinds of lives that they've led.

"Cus it was one of the characters, Brian M(a)cDermott, he's one of the mountain rescue team members; he's from Derry in Northern Ireland. And I'm an Irishman playing an Irish character that's kinda based on him. A lot of the rescues are based on actual stories and events, in fact every rescue is based on some element of truth, anyway.

"So my...the way I fit in is I run this paper mill and like a lot of these mountain rescue guys, you know guys from all over the world, who live around here, around Ben Nevis, that sort of thing. [note: I'm note 100% sure BC said, "that sort of thing"; it's what it sounded like to me] They go to wherever the climbs are, that part of the world. This character has come from Ireland to be part of the rescue team. And to start life here and he's kinda on the run from lurve. He had his heart broken a long time ago and hasn't really recovered and doesn't think he's ever gonna find it again. Until he falls in love with the nurse, there's a nurse who works at the hospital. A lot of the mountain rescue team guys interact with the medical people here. So a lot of his storyline is the developing romance and subsequent breakdown of this relationship that he has.

"And he's best friends to Gordon, who is played by Clive, Clive Russell. The great Clive Russell, he told me to say that but I don't think he's very good. [Note: it's obvious in the clip that BC is joking.] He's team leader and we're best mates and I'm godfather to his daughter and all the rest of it. And that's where I fit in. We're great buddies and it's a good the way it cuts between rescues and real life."

Brendan talks about the actors' training for Rockface

"Well, when we came up here, we did this three weeks of very intensive training. It was very, very gruelling. We had this ex-Marine, Mick Tighe, he's a brilliant mountain guide, he's one of the best mountain guides in the world, apparently.

"He thought he was gonna get a lot of poncey actors. You know, he thought we wouldn't be able to. It was like his mission to really drive us as much as he could. We were up to it, you know, we went for it and so some of us really took to it, to different aspects of it. There was a couple of the guys who actually turned out to be really good rock face climbers, assailing, you know. I loved it, I really, really took to it.

"Logistically, it's been pretty difficult shooting up here, just the weather is miserable. It has it's own microclimate here. So it's very, very unpredictable, very, very changeable. It's alright for us because we're moving around, but for a lot of the crew, trudging cameras and everything up there, it's a whole new ball game. So that's proved very challenging, I think is the word.

"I really like it up here. I like mountainy terrain, I mean, I've made a film in Donegal this year, been up to Ben Nevis. I love the mountains and lakes but I just like jigging it around as much as you can. I love going down to Glasgow and Edinburgh. I actually live in Norfolk and I live in the middle of the country myself. But I love the city you know. So, I'm mixin' and matchin' you know. But it's great, the outdoor life, it's very good, it's a good place to be."