Welcome to a brand new feature on the PR. Whenever you read or hear interviews people are always asked if you could have the perfect dinner party who would you invite living or dead. Well, i decided it was time to turn this into a feature but we are making it one step bigger – The perfect Extravagant Dinner Party, I will not just be picking the people I would want to have dinner with but the chefs and the entertainment as well!

I have given myself some ground rules – there are only 9 places available at the table to join me and there has to be a chef to represent each course and there should be only 4 acts allowed to provide entertainment.

At the table already is Donald O’Connor, and musician Tom Delonge and NHL star Marty St. Louis and Charlie Chaplin so now it’s time to see who is going to be taking the seat Next to them.

 Dinner Guest 5 – Peter Lord

I grew up adoring animation and one area that fascinated me more then anything was stop animation. I remember watching a lot of Morph when I was a kid and had a VHS with the episodes on. I don’t remember many of the episodes but I DO remember the one about Morph and Chaz climbing up a wall to get to the cherry on the Belgium Bun.

I remember playing the Morph VHS on repeat and over the years stop animation has played a huge part in my life. I loved Nick Parks creations such as Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep but for me as much as I adore Nicks work, Peter Lord is the one that sort of help start it all and I would love the opportunity to meet someone who inspired me to go into animation as a career.

For my final year project at University, I created a stop animation aimed at children that was interactive and an educational tool for children between the ages of 7-8years old. For this project I read the Aardman Animations book written by Peter Lord from cover to cover and it was such an inspirational read and opened my eyes to even more of the animation world. I may not do stop animation as a career anymore, but i still do animation, and that probably wouldn’t of happened without Peter Lord inspiring me.

I would love to sit down with Mr Lord and talk about everything animation and all about Morph – that awesome character was a big part of my childhood and I still love watching him pop up on social media today.