[…]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[…]
[…]lark? No.
Jim Clark?
No not Jim, he wasn’t around then.
No. I was thinking... Well, there was Robert Clark[ph] who was editor[??] at[??] the BBC[??-8:42].
No, it wasn’t... No. His name’s... I can see his face but I can’t remember his name.
Not to worry, because it will be a matter of […]
[…]s, you know, on the booze. He had to give up drink and some of his homosexual capers and whatnot.Q Talking about Kodak - what about negotiations with BBC. Did you ever get...A No, no. At that time they had appointed this Bill Barnard(?) assigned. There were odd things I did but no negotiations of an[…]
[…]ny in something called an Ad Rank advertising magazine, which we're not happy for, because we only have one but in those days, we had one TV channel, BBC and it was black and white, and everything was live. And so when ITV opened, it opened up a whole new range of programmes and things and advertise[…]
[…]e a wee bit cynical. I don't like being cynical. I: But that's what STV is. It is a business, isn't it? It's not a cultural broadcaster like the BBC. R: Oh they had public service broadcasts or they did have, more so in my day, they did have a remit to do that. But, yeah, I don't think to […]
[…]herly man.WT: Do you know who I first worked with for television, Mr Baird.LW: How did that happen.WT: When he was experimenting in a room behind the BBC, he was always asking for people to come and jig up and down in front of the cameras really and truly. I was a child but he got remarkable people,[…]
[…]ed to do things more than before but before we come into the country. And he was going to shoot a film or later whine about Lake Geneva coming up for BBC Television on his own back in his own company and he asked us did we not. Contact we did the shooting.SPEAKER: F8And not the worst. When I was in.[…]
