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[…]the Beeb didn1 t seem too keen on. And I got to work there Norman Swallow: Was this Rediffusion. Johnny Speight: No, I'll tell you who it was. It was ATV, and it was George and Alfred Black were doing packaging, Jack Hilton was doing packaging too then also for the ITA. And they had found, Val Parne[…]
[…] out fit caslled Greengow?? an agency in Birmingham to service ATV. Do you have any recruiting editors.So that's my chance […]
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[…]London and then I went freelance as an assistant and then after a year or so there's an out fit caslled Greengow?? an agency in Birmingham to service ATV. Do you have any recruiting editors.So that's my chance to become a full time editor. And I went up to Birmingham and spent 12 years there. At lea[…]
[…]ere party to it in some fashion. The directors I mentioned George of course Bill Ward was there and Bill went on to enormous heights of course in the ATV in the Grade organization. He had been a floor manager, he was a director by the time I got there working on light entertainment so cal[…]
[…] 10 pounds a week. And the advantage was that you work with every single company there was I mean, we're Granada you work with the BBC, you work with ATV you worked with ABC you worked, you know, so you were going around all over the place. And whilst the cameraman loathed you because they had to li[…]
