[4] In 1968, with colleagues Tony Garnett, Ken Loach, Potter and others, he set up Kestrel Productions, a company which was affiliated with London Weekend Television.
[6] British Sounds (aka, See You at Mao, 1970), a film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Henri Roger, which Trodd produced, had a particularly deleterious effect on Kestrel's relationship with LWT, who banned it.
[5] During a short period at Granada Television, he produced Home and Away (1972), written by Julia Jones and directed by Roy Battersby and Donald McWhinnie.
Budgetary problems meant that the connection was again short-lived, and only three Potter-scripted productions were completed, Blade on the Feather, Rain on the Roof and Cream in My Coffee (all 1980).
Trodd's other credits include the film A Month in the Country (1987), adapted from the J. L. Carr novel by Simon Gray, and the Stephen Poliakoff scripted Caught on a Train (1980) which was shown in the BBC2 Playhouse series.