[…], so everyone’s happy, you know, and we got a page in. So absolutely amazing amount of publicity and we even ended up on, not Newsnight, the tea time BBC show with Sue Lawley, (actually it was Nationwide. PW) and er, so the film was 11 getting around. This is incredible really from nothing[…]
[…]we call nowadays a "spin-off".Rodney Giesler: A spin-off. And he got his Eady Money, and fine, everyone was happy. I then went to do some work at the BBC called "View & Teach" which was a television series to teach English to foreign speakers.John Legard: Did you have an agent?Rodney Giesler: No[…]
[…]  35:43  on chess, and one or two others max Knight, of course was on was in constant use of one kind or another, I think Maxwell Knight, a BBC broadcaster.John Taylor  35:55  He turned out to be the head of one section of EMI five orPaddy Carey  35:59  six at the end, […]
[…]e union importantly, which were about the future of the film industry, which were about the future of television, should we have a second, should the BBC have a second channel, should they have a second channel. What should we do with Channel Four, should we have Channel Four and, you know, politica[…]
[…]of status and provided some very intelligent and worthwhile contributors. I think, I think breaking up the old TV branch was good because it gave the BBC a sensible voice. Its weakness, there was two fold in respect of television. One, ITV became quite a the worst aspects of ITV that in the past hav[…]
[…]ovelty compendium to play the Saturday family show slot and the Late Night Show slot. At the time Tom and Jerry cartoons were gaining good ratings on BBC so I asked for ten of them in a programme and to provide a bit of variety between the non-stop mayhem of the cartoon characters’ warring I suggest[…]
