[…]l Street eventually closed down. Nothing to do with the fact that I came and joined them. The main shop was in Queen Margaret Drive, not far from the BBC, and eventually I was decanted up to Queen Margaret Drive and I stayed there for six years but the one thing about that job, even though I was sur[…]
[…]nbsp;I: Except yourself?! R: I can't think of any. Certainly none of my year. I mean, some of them, Roddy McMillan and Johnnie Grieve went in to BBC and did the Boat thing - what's it called? I2: Para Handy? I: Yes! R: Para Handy, yes, thank you very much! But they didn't go into[…]
[…] It was great! It was great! But it was done because of the afterglow of Doctor Finlay's Casebook. We weren't allowed to call it Casebook because the BBC had copyright to that so we just called it Dr. Finlay and that was a huge success. But that was Programme Maker's gut instinct and it was right. I[…]
[…]owing you around, you do radio work as well, don't you? R: Yes, I was six and a half years on Radio Clyde and two and a half years with Saga and BBC, I used to do BBC in the sixties, going in to the seventies, I used to do radio shows for the BBC and so on and I did West Sound down at Ayr. I op[…]
[…]ps with film historians and so on. The Film Department was also, and again, this pre-dates Anne and Clive a bit, but I guess it goes back to the BBC2 Great War series in the mid-sixties, that the Film Department was developing a reputation as a major source for archive film footage for history […]
[…]bsp;Tell me a bit about them because I, I‘m, I don’t know anything about them. Peet? Well, Stephen was, mm, responsible for some brilliant BBC television programmes, and Norman of course, was equally again involved in putting history, mm, often contemporary history but nevertheless it was[…]
