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[…] Q: Was bingo a license to print money?00:21:30 JIM WHITTELL: Yes, no question. The best example I can think of would be a provincial Odeon in Birmingham which used to make – and bear in mind this is middle 60’s money – used to make £[…]
[…]im how, how did he, why, why had he come in to television, had he written something? And he said no, he’d written a book of short stories he’d won an award for, Somerset Maugham Award called Tomato Cain and apparently Michael Barry had read it and thought from it that he could see this man knew some[…]
[…]he drama that we did, and I was supposed to be rather good in it. I thought –“‘I think that’s what I’d like to do”. So that’s how I went to the Royal Academy, and I think when I went there, I was thinking more of a teaching degree. But I very soon realised that that was what I liked, and I hadn’t; t[…]
[…]bsp;I killed the myth about the Albert Hall. Because I started doing other programmes only like the ones with the real audiences likeMiss World BAFTA Awards or something like that, which I used to do all these because nobody else seems to know teh Albert Hall, which isa really interesting place. Bec[…]
[…]you a 3-6 months maybe and I said and I'm a married man, I have a son, I can't go on some flibbertygibbitenterprise like that which of course was the best way to get any one enthusiastic about you and from then on she pursued me.And then she said maybe you won't come and join us but perhaps just com[…]
[…]r an Oscar, as the 'best film from any source', which speaks highly for the non-actor. Now, if non-actors can suddenly appear and be nominated for an Academy Award, there is something in that system of film making, and we can't do it now... because of the union trouble. So that it means that a vital[…]
