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[…] of course was Granada, because Granada had done these wonderful documentaries and, and dramas about the Birmingham Six and had […]

[…]ned me extra respect from many of the hard-nosed projectionists including those in Glasgow and Manchester.Jimmy and I didn’t get off to the best of starts when he found out I was “in on the secret hiding place” for the key to the sanctum of the Projection Suite! Lottie and Fred, with whom I’d often […]

[…] used to give me work. All the directors and producers weren't making films anymore. So it become a quite a tough time. I did I did one thing for the arts department. BBC because I'd always worked at the BBC. I fill people called film organisation managers. And they were amazing. They, the whole of […]

[…]. Anyway, they agreed we could do the film.[0:24:52]So the first people we approached of course was Granada, because Granada had done these wonderful documentaries and, and dramas about the Birmingham Six and had campaigned very hard. And, we got completely rebuffed. ‘We do the Birmingham Six. What […]

[…]d after that. Oh yes, I did a film called Away for the Day which was to be about the kind of parties that go on coach trips for the day in different parts of the country. And the idea was that we would shoot it over a month and then put it all together so that it looked as if it was all happening on[…]

[…]ught how to put the mail bags out and so on, and his instructor said, "you put it out two in bridges and forty five beats." Do you remember? And he starts counting... the railway... the rhythm of the beats. But we hadn't got the track of that, because we weren't shooting sync - we were only shooting[…]

[…] assistant. And of course, she was wonderful, because I mean she knew it all, she was a trained architect, and first of all she got ticked off Ernie Gartside for wearing trousers on the set, and she said, "Well how am I supposed to climb around up there without trousers on?" And that was - they had […]

[…]grandparents didn't attend my mother and father's wedding because they thought it was disgraceful that had their daughter married an architect in the arts. They ultimately forgave her I'm glad to say him became very good friends what was after what after Barbara? I left school and more Breyer with a[…]

[…] She was totally, by the way, intellectually uninterested in the arts. There weren't any books around much; you know she […]