[…]f that sort of amount of people chasing a job in this amazing industry. But when I got into STV, I kind of quickly realised the people in it were the best and brightest that had been other places like the BBC and had come over to STV because they were actually better remunerated. There was more, in […]
[…]e were signing at 16 years old. Bearing in mind the age of adulthood was still 21 it wasn't 18 or 21. So we were signing our lives away virtually the best part of our lives away. Going in at 16 for twelve years which meant we came out at 28 or 30 29 nine and someone raised a question in Parliament a[…]
[…]d pick a waltz because it's easier to move around to so I brought a song called ‘It's a Sin to Tell a Lie’. In the meantime I'd met a girl who was my best friend for a long time. Now I met her in a production that Robert Donat did I must have done that between the two seasons at Stratford. Robert Do[…]
[…]ay, ‘Gargantua, I must have...’ whatever it was he wanted to have, you know. [laughter] I knew him right to the very end because I used to see him at BAFTA and various places and his voice would come ringing out, ‘Gargantua! How are you?’ And everybody would turn round. [laughter] This very small ch[…]
[…]f it's like a chairman, can I ask you just a chairman, can I ask you a question then you can respond to people off it's happened the other evening at BAFTA You know, when this Kathy Burke was being interviewed to begin with, nobody asked me questions, that huge audience and after and then Derek &nbs[…]
[…] they started to put the soundproofing in then. It was a kind of a wire netting behind which had a sort of material and er...Margaret Thomson: Like asbestos wall almost wasn't it? That sort of stuff, it looked like it anyway.Charles Wilder: ...all stacked in behind it. And then of course it develope[…]
