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My cast away this week is the production designer Eve Stewart.

On the big screen, some of her many credits include Les Miserables, The King's Speech and Vera Drake.

And for TV, the hour upstairs downstairs and call the midwife.

Responsible for locations, scenery and all the props,

she's renowned for creating entirely convincing cohesive worlds

that capture a beguiling sense of time, place and spirit.

If it's nine tons of Scottish seaweed you need or noiseless rubber rosary beads,

she is most certainly your woman.

After award-winning and Oscar nominated, her trademark is her relentless attention to detail

and she slavishly trolls the archives for visual clues and references.

It would seem that the bug bit her early.

Of growing up in Camden Town in London, she says,

When I was a little girl, I used to have lots of dolls houses.

Now I have lots of big ones and get to do it on a bigger scale.

And it, Eve Stewart, then is creating these entirely believable,

authentic little bubbles of apparent reality.

Do you still get a kick when you see your work on screen?

I never really get a kick because I'm always so nervous.

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