[…]ley. We used to have - and it shows you how poverty stricken we were - that we used to have our lunch, a currant bun and a glass of iced water at the ABC, which we had...Roy Fowler: Which ABC was that?Joan Kemp-Welch: The one opposite the Arts Theatre now, which I think is Cranks orsomethi[…]
[…]e ashtray up there. And I was on the set and we were doing this show called Music Shop. Now I had worked - our offices were in Kingsway. We were then ABC, this was before they had to change their name to ATV. Because Thomas, you know, who was ABC Cinemas, he eventually came into television, so he in[…]
[…]s what everybody did - even in the labour exchanges people were saying what I really want to do is direct - in job centres - so er - I found out that ABC Teddington were looking for - er - trainee directors - and I went along there to one of their boards like Brian Tesler and - I can’t remember the […]
[…]cause at that time, because we 1 d parted in the war, he1 d been shipped somewhere else. And so I arranged to meet him and we met at Stratford in the ABC Tea Rooms, remember the ABC Tea Rooms Norman Swallow: They 1 re not there now Johnny Speight: No. The Aerated Bread Company wasn't it. Tea rooms, […]
[…]ng the kinds of audience they wanted to reach so, you know, if you advertise in this programme and that programme and this programme, you'll get your ABC ones and, you know, all of the rest of it. It became a, you know, quite fragmented and quite a difficult environment for most of the Companies and[…]
[…]as was getting was kept going. And the following day, we got two headlines, the the the headline in the Daily Express and then the Daily Mirror. So a TV film causes spoof causes chaos. bit like Wells's war of the world when he was in fact, he, as we saw sort of reverse that the Martiams didn't[…]
[…]hat's really what started me on the road to television. [5:12]I'd been in the Nottingham Playhouse for a couple of years but I'd also applied to ABC Television as Thames originally was, or it was, Thames was the merger of two companies, ABC and Rediffusion, and I had applied for a trainee Direc[…]
[…]sp;DARROL BLAKE: AR? NEVILLE WORTMAN: It wasn’t AR, it was ATV to start with, because I think ATV was the first but it was known as ABC in those days until some problem because of ABC Pictures being in it. And so, I walked into Kingsway House, past the desk, up onto the secon[…]
[…]iling cabinet. And I as a director kept thinking, "What can I do to make it spectacular?" Of course, what can you do? I was that time watching avidly ABC Theatre from Armchair Theatre which is full of imagination. Directors like Philip Saville and Silvio Narritsarno, and they were doing... Darr[…]
