[…]n the wall in my room at home - a huge one like that - on which you're sitting at a table with about twenty others when we won in 1975 and we won the best ITV programme for that year and they're all sitting there and it's great to see you sitting there now! I: Oh boy! To be quite honest with yo[…]
[…]t arrived and Francis was a very dashing wee chap from ATV and London and very much a Light Entertainment specialist, and indeed, hadn't long won the Bafta for a show with Millie [Millicent] Martin, as I recall, as Light Entertainment Producer of the Year when we got it. Anyway, Martin, sorry, Franc[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]nbsp;25 saw it as a prestigious show that sold round the world. That did well at film festivals, won, would win the Prix Italia and you know did Bafta; it would win Bafta awards and so it was that side of LWT that they could say: ‘Look we don’t just do LE we’ve got The South Bank Show.’ It was […]
[…]t a good atmosphere, actually, and there was a constant feeling of management and – worker is too – you know what I mean. In that sense it wasn’t the best atmosphere.I do remember a question being asked on the very first occasion when I joined the BBC and they had a good question, which was “How do […]
[…]ce and “Yes, we’d like you to do it.” Oh, how wonderful. It’s at theOlympic Studio in Barnes and on location and the Cameraman is Tony er ..., mybest friend, can’t think of his surname [Richmond], and the operator is Mike Fox.That’s all I remember of the crew. And I said: “Could […]
[…]s full Assistant when I was made up was a film called “Public School” and the Editor was Paul Carter, the Director was Jonathan Gili and Paul won the BAFTA Craft Award for “Public School” and was was kind enough to share his prize with me. So that was that was delightful.SPEAKER: M2 [Paul Collard]So[…]
[…]n’t have much school during The Blitz really because we were in the shelters most of the time, having singsongs and trying to conduct an education as best as people could really. (TIME 07:05) So, it was a kind of tough but it was an exciting time actually as well for children.&nbs[…]
[…]gh, and got on the board, and went to Wrotham in Kent to be a…trained as an officer in the Royal Artillery. And, to cut a long story short, I met the best friend (one of the best friends I ever had) which was Peter Chudley, who was just a great friend, and of course, it so happened the (indistinct) […]