[…] of something that STV had done many, many, many years before but we managed to get together enough money to make six half-hours and it's won lots of awards. It was amazing! Because I'm not from a Drama background, I had very limited input to it but I definitely made it happen from working with the […]
[…]n Winston, yeah. TD: One of the reviews of the series, the Thames series Palestine, by Brian Winston spoke about in The Listener spoke about the Academy Award winning film research, so that went straight onto my CV [Murray laughs] and I thanked him. Every time I see Brian Winston I thank him ag[…]
[…]e type of John Freeman everyone read it people like Augustus John but fortunately not with a Cammy flex and an Arriflex because if you put 16 mill on Academy flex because it had 35 lenses and contrasted that with an Arriflex 16 mill you would have thought it was shot on a different location on a dif[…]
[…]ere or to look after me, I had to get a job. And this was a nightmare, because what could I do? I had an aunt who died young. And I think she was the best of us. She's an argument for the best die young. She had taken a degree at the University of Wales; she was the best educated of us. S[…]
[…] film, I remember watching it, the one you got the award for. LK: That was for Anthony Simmons[xlv]who is quite […]
[…] didn't he? Poor chap. Saville was a rather a fiery director. Yes he could say things like that. Didn't mean […]
[…]at was? R: I think they've made a huge contribution. You only have to look back at all the programmes that they've made over the years. A lot of award-winning programmes at that. Again, going back to what I call the 'Golden Era' of STV, they did some incredible Dramas back then, which I happily[…]
[…]ople coming into the industry. Were you ever involved in that? R: After I left Scottish Television I did a little bit with RSAMD [Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama] when, oh, I mentored a couple of people on projects there and there was also the Edinburgh College that did a media projec[…]
