Stephen Peet

[…] other people who was down and out and getting a bit of money doing radio work was... Ian...Ian ...oh lord... Ian Mc-something, who became one of the BBC's chief overseas people... the name's gone. [**NB: Might be Ian McDougall**] And anyway... Easter 1948... Eventually I came back to England, wande[…]

Ray Harryhausen

[…]n the straw that used turkey in a stroke of luck. But it's a great score it's a great section. So do you put a and then they did a good score for the BBC good as well a little reminiscent of roots. It works for me may be justified but I don't think it's a good score. It is that I have to say Bernie […]

Alan Lawson

[…]f the screen and you would come in the bottom. I suppose it was a form of wipe but a rather crude form of wipe. We were at Alexandra Palace until the BBC rightly decided enough was enough and they signed an agreement with ME us use the Metron and I found myself out of work.Arthur Graham: What date w[…]

Julia Cave

[…]how she ended up in films.  Her daughter was Juliet Rhys-Williams who was in fact a Liberal Member of Parliament and she was the governor of the BBC at the time, and I went to see her at the time and 8:01 she gave me one of those rather wonderful white five-pound notes [laughter] which have dis[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…] recherche as all her suggested recipes are far too expensive. She was married and is in fact still married to number three he was at one time in the BBC called John Shearer. He was known as 'Vulcan the Exterminator' because he was responsible for cleaning everybody out making them redundant. And Ji[…]

Charles Cooper

[…] of censorship in the 1960s) and the negotiations with the BBC and Channel 4 over television and theatrical rights. He […]

John Aldred

[…] there were two made by me. One went to the BBC and one went to studios at Wembley. The one […]

Simon Rose

[…] it's like this, this angel is going up to heaven. And it's very Ken Russell ish. And I think on the basis for that film, he got his first job at the BBC. And another film that was extremely impressive was by Peter Wilkins, it was called forgotten faces. And it was about the uprising against the aga[…]

Virginia McKenna

[…]The Edwardians (1972-4),[105] and the one I was in was called ‘Darling Daisy’. The costumes were, to be believed, they were so beautiful. As only the BBC can do, I think – certainly in those days – the quality of the production in every way. I mean, even your petticoat, which was never seen; everyth[…]
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