I remember Baghdad as being in... in the early 50s, mid-50s rather, as being almost like a medieval city and it was... it was people carrying loads on their back, enormous loads, extremely heavy – a very, very strong people the Iraqi people – and it's very colourful and you'd see carpets laid out in the streets... new carpets, which they wanted to look more aged so they'd put them in the roadway and all the cars would drive over them and break them down. And they'd sell them as antiques, would they? They'd look more like antique carpets, yes. But I made some good friends there because the Iraq Petroleum Company had... had set up a film unit in Baghdad and the assistants, the assistant cameramen and the assistant directors were Iraqis, so we made some very good friends there and we used to play cricket –; cricket in Baghdad – terribly English, and so that was a marvellous experience and I was there for about four months.