[…]d me a job. And they did and the neighbouring farm, I got a pretty rough breaking in there. I remember, you know, I been looked after reasonably well living in the house and my first although very humbled place in the house in my first month I found you know, I was given a sheepskin for fairly[…]
[…]rector. He said, there's nothing lower in the companies and employees director. Anyway, with some difficulty they sent me to college college, we were living in college and later in Norwood, at that time. And I went to the school which is, was, I think, an extremely good school. I didn't believe it a[…]
Danny Livingstone [Start of Recording] [00:58]I: Interview with Danny Livingstone. Interviewer - John Frame. What was your background before you got in to television, Danny? R: A little bit unusual. Went to school. Left school in fifth year with Physics, Maths, you know, a scientific […]
[…]play of his. I saw it, and I liked it, and I told him to make a very good film, but it was about cipher work, and so we turn it into a split. Drivers living in ther Street at the time, little flat in Thayer Street. And he'd come round there, and we'd slug at it, got it into good shape, and Jim took […]
[…] the British Film Commission. Goodman has been closely involved with BAFTA throughout much of his career, and he held the […]
[…] headlines already, can't you? Yeah, ‘BBC attacks our pensioners.’ The very best they can do is to restrict the free TV licences to over 75’s who are living on their own. Yes, so in other words, they're not living in a granny flat or something else, but that would only save 20% of the £800 million. […]
[…]ause they don’t want to work overtime today.” And he said, “How about us going to Wembley to the dogs?” I said, “Yes alright”. So he was living in Ruislip and he said, “Make for my place and we’ll all have a drink there.” And there were these two brothers, one was assistant direc[…]
[…] one of Lean’s cameramen, camera operator, and he was at Bafta that night too? CB: Oh was he? I: Yeah, […]
[…]actually changed my life, the first time changed my life, was a mournful Mrs Gisborne (Time 06:00) who was a friend of my Mother’s when we were living in …we had a pub in Bayswater by this time and she was one of her customers and her daughter was going to the Royal Academy and she said “You k[…]
[…]aid “We have a benign despotism”. 00:15:28A benign despotism here - (?) so I did the - the series of ‘Square World’ and it won the BAFTA - Mike - Michael Bentine got best entertainer and er - I got John Street best programme and I got best director - so that was lovely[…]
