[…] 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[…]
[…]sp;you turning over you were saying about brown Mickey? Oh,Speaker 1 0:14 yes. Well, he, although he will, of course, I knew him from the BBC. Knew of him with BBC. I'd never met him, but he was a great friend of Margaret Harper Nelson's. So she rang me and said, do look after Brian. And[…]
[…]riety type stuff. More hard-edge News and Current Affairs, thousand hours of local programming from the license obligation in '93, making more of the BBC, getting more viewers in the BBC and then, because of the issues that you've alluded to, those of us working here and are doing a lot, all of sudd[…]
[…]Film Unit, they didn’t expect me to be a member of the Union. But when I did together with a friend, Guy Brenton, who was working at that time at the BBC and I'd known at Oxford, he wanted to make a film about deaf children and he came to me with the idea and said would I help him because I had had […]
[…]yone in television. I'll introduce you he said and. So the next day came an invitation to meet Michael Barry at the Royal Automobile Club, not at the BBC, and we started talking and I said and may I tell you what I think of BBC Television. He said yes, tell me. And I said I think nothing, it's just […]
[…] Guy Brenton, who was working at that time at the BBC and I'd known at Oxford, he wanted to make […]
