[…]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[…]
[…]'t say anything for himself sadly. I: We have Nancy coming. R: Oh great! That's wonderful! That's great! It was the same year that Bill was awarded a gold medal by the RTS so that was super. And, after that, I was allowed to make more documentaries and that was really fun. I did a film abo[…]
[…] it served a lot of purposes because five minutes a night is thirty five minutes a week and, if it's stretched a little, it's getting well on for the best part of an hour which, when your license, went to, say, nine hours a week, it's a substantial hole in it. I'm not saying that figured largely in […]
[…]regulator set bid-level and companies competed on quality, which is the right way to do it. But we ended up with a farce in 1992. Two franchises were awarded for pennies because STV and Central drove away all competition, so Nigel Lawson got zero from two very valuable franchises. LWT underbid becau[…]
[…]sed in little fillers that were very often about artists talking about their own work who were dead couldn't answer back and Arbrush Durer? . And the best of those I think it's the one on Van Goch, which was narrated by Cecil Day Lewis. He edited all of my he has given writing credit for it but he e[…]
