Thom: I think it would have been wonderful if we had basically done... if we'd carried on in The Bends way. It would have been great, for the accountants and everybody. But as usual we screwed it up. [laughs] Because we had to, 'cause we were somewhere else.

Ed: A huge Radiohead fan has said to me: 'Honestly, first listen, I'm really disappointed, 'cause I was expecting a kind of Bends mark 2.' And that's exactly what we didn't do...

Thom: When it came to the end of it, it was like, "oh..! People are gonna have to make an effort'. And I had a sort of sleepless... basically, a sleepless week where I sat down and I tried to put it together in a way that would make it more acceptable. Just turned myself into a maniac, actually. And the others were, like, not talking to me and I kept sending them tapes of the order of the tracks, saying, 'Here you go, here you go! It's all right now! It's understandable, people will get it really quickly! It'll be great!' I suddenly got really anxious because it wasn't The Bends, it didn't have that... it demanded a degree of effort. But then... all of my favourite records were like that, so it didn't matter.

Ed: Anything that you're trying to do that's different, it is going to be challenging, it is going to take a couple of listens to get into.

Presenter: The single 'Paranoid Android' is certainly challenging, but Radiohead's experimentation seems to have paid off.

Colin: When we set up our studio, when we were recording, we listened to a song by The Beatles called... was it 'I am the Walrus'?

Jonny: No, it was actually 'Happiness is a Warm Gun'.

Colin: 'Happiness is a Warm Gun'. Well, it's a song, anyway, where they take lots of different bits and they stick it together, and we thought we'd have a bash at that ourselves. And then 'Paranoid Android' was kind of the result of that. We recorded different bits, and just stuck it together randomly. And it worked out quite nicely, really.

Presenter: And it wasn't too hard for the band to find a star for their video.

Thom: When we were doing the artwork, I had a tape of all the Robin cartoons, and I used to just get drunk and watch them... watch him get drunk and just think, 'That's me! That is me!'

Presenter: 'Paranoid Android', like the rest of OK Computer, is certainly unique and challenging. But whether you like it or not, the band, at least, are happy with the results.

Thom: I had the 'hate it all, I love it all, I hate it all, I love it all, I hate it all, I love it all' thought for the whole year that we did it. All the time. People used to ring up, friends of mine would ring up and I'd just bend their ear for an hour... Now it's sort of... it's somebody else's. I love it now, and it's somebody else's, and that's great. You know... it's our third record, and I think people give you... I think people will give us a break and will give it a chance and that's what we need.