BECTU History ProjectInterview no: 467Interviewee: Phyllis DaltonInterviewer: Rodney GieslerDuration: 01:33:42 & 00:25:48 (total 01:59:30)COPYRIGHT: No use may be made of any interview material without the permission of the BECTU History Project (http://www.historyproject.org.uk/). Copyright of […]
[…] EMR group. And there was a young assistant manager there called George Martin, who was assistant to Oscar price, and George gave Dick James his contract. And Dick James said, Well, I'd like this young guy, Ronald Goodwin, to do my arrangements and conduct for me. So George said, Okay, fine, you kno[…]
[…] know, coming to work here?" and I said "Well, yes!" I mean, permanent staff - I thought "Ooh," you know, "Gift from Heaven!" and I had a year's contract...and that was the start, and I think the first job I did when I was on the staff, permanently, I did some stuff for Don Smith.Alan Lawson: Oh, Ch[…]
[…]how?’ and she said, ‘Oh yes, he signed the contract yesterday’. And I said, ‘No you didn’t, because I have an absolutely unbreakable prior contract. You can go and tell Tony Gruner that he’s made a nasty mistake’. And she said, ‘I’ll kill him, I’ll sue him for every halfpenny…’ I’ll this[…]
Harry Manley (HM)Laboratories (Colour Film Services)BECTU 383Interviewers: John Legard (JL) & Dave Robson (DR)Date: 10/06/19962 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:18:08 Background and early life in Birkenhead; started at Birkenhead School in 1945 and left at sixteen; wanted a career as a customs off[…]
[…]nes I did, and I've got the stuff down there now, I can show you what I worked on, because they didn't give me any money, they didn't give me no contract.Rodney Giesler: What system were you using on these discs - they were still analogue weren't they?Larry Allen: Yeah that's right.Rodney Giesler: B[…]
[…]experience you know. Alan Lawson: You might have got a slight increase in your annual increment.Julia Cave: I might have done, but I was on contract. You see, from leaving the BBC, when I went to Drama School, I came back on contract. 36:01 So I was freelance. So anyway I dire[…]
