[…]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[…]
[…] happy. I then went to do some work at the BBC called "View & Teach" which was a television series […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
