[…]rienced. Yep.Alan Lawson: And um did you have any contact with the kind of studio people? You know, the...Cyril Page: No. No, nothing at all. No, no. Rediffusion were down below... of us, but er...and we used to go down there...Alan Lawson: [interrupts] No I was thinking of Bob [Beryl ?] and these p[…]
[…];did later on.Norman Swallow: Some people got a BBC set some people got one fromRediffusion, these places you could hire them from and the BBC paid it.Norman Swallow:&nbs[…]
[…] Side A And ‘Coronation Street’? Yes, Street, yes. And things, Rediffusion… Yes. Which, which had been such a resounding success. […]
[…]g because ATV is people think of after he left the BBC. But in actual fact, Tony Hancock started working on television. His first full series was for associated Rediffusion television in a programme called the Tony Hancock show. So there's a little bit of a story as to how that happened. So we talke[…]
[…]ter called ‘Missions’ – in the book that I wrote – and actually they were missions that Jeremy Isaacs, who founded Channel Four, was my first boss at Associated Rediffusion, whatever, he used to send me out on missions when things were difficult, almost as a last resort he would say ‘Try and sort th[…]
[…]use for a couple of years but I'd also applied to ABC Television as Thames originally was, or it was, Thames was the merger of two companies, ABC and Rediffusion, and I had applied for a trainee Director's scheme that they ran, that ABC Television ran. It was for theatre directors actually but I was[…]
[…] period. But Jeremy wanted to do away with presenters and Robin Day didn’t like this, engineered a coup, got Jeremy ousted. Jeremy then pitched up at Rediffusion before it became Thames, started recruiting Panorama people for This Week, starting with his favourite producer Philip Whitehead. I meanwh[…]
