[…]s a documentary, basically, about them but with their concert. I: It won a few awards, didn't it, that programme? R: It did, yeah, it won a BAFTA. I: How did you, you must be quite...? R: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely! [61:29]I: We are back in VT and by this time, what, we are i[…]
[…] stuff and sat on these various committees and all the rest of it. He tended to deal with that side of it. I: But you were kind of actually with BAFTA, you were Chair of BAFTA for a while? R: I was chair of BAFTA. Oh yeah, I've always been a member of BAFTA and STV always encouraged you to[…]
[…]other came over, and to talk with her, she knelt down. Extraordinary. And my mother – who was such a Royalist – there was photograph taken – and this picture which my mother eventually had – I don’t know where it is now, which is rather sad. That was an extraordinary evening: Albert Finney and mysel[…]
[…]ing so that as different films had different ratios then it was terribly important that the masking move in or out and up and down to ensure that the picture was picture perfect against the masking.00:14:34 So if I was opening a presentation I would want to […]
[…]I had to do… I what I was down on the… down on the sheet to cover. But it was very… very menial tasks, to deliberately humiliate me. MDThe picture you’re painting is… of the BBC… it’s going back to the idea that it doesn’t cope with people like you… at all… at all well? BAIf I … if I[…]
[…]omething called Fragment of Fear, that was a modern one with Gayle Hunnicutt and David Hemmings. Then I did The Hireling, for which I got a BAFTAaward, that was twenties. The book isn’t twenties, I think the book’s forties, but I thinkthey were right to make that twenties, I think that wor[…]
[…] didn’t have a television, we had a radio which used to be a radio and television, so we could get television sound but we hadn’t got television picture. Anyway, we turned the sound on to the television channel and they were playing music, the BBC were playing music. I mean television used to b[…]
ALEXANDER FARISComposer/conductorInterviewed by Teddy Darvas, with Alan Lawson recorded 21 February 1994Copyright of the recording invested in the BECTU History - ProjectSIDE 1, TAPE 1.TD: Can you tell us where you were born, your education, your youth and now you came into musicAlexander Faris: I w[…]
[…] was primarily surrogate local for renters surrogate father. And he I remember took me because he was a great movie buff. And he took me to the local pictures, which I think was the kind of a Toyland and we saw some Ruritanian light musical comedy with Nelson Eddie and Jeanette Jeanette. Dang it Yes[…]
