Docudrama: Words of docudrama wisdom

On telling the story of Pompeii: 'Frankly, the biggest character was the volcano... we were following the mountain and what it was going to do next. It's like Ridley Scott's Alien, [the audience] knows the alien is out there, but the characters don't know what it's going to do next. There were lines in Pompeii's narration that would say 'By now, the pressure had been building up to...' and you think 'God, it's going to blow, but the people are still trying to figure whether to go in or out of their house.' It's classic drama telling around a real event.'