[…]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 […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]isit…HF: Right. Well I was doing these clubs. Now one of the clubs was frequented by journalists -I didn’t know it at the time – and reporters at the BBC which was radio in those days. And I went in with my papers as I did once a day, shouting out “Germans in Berlin, Star paper” and a man behind the[…]
[…]e?Yes, that’s right, mm.And it had a marble bathroom.[Laughter]Mind you we were in bunk beds, which was a bit of a letdown because my letter from the BBC said it would be dormitory type accommodation sharing, they didn’t say you would be in a bunk bed, you know.[05:06][Laughter]But anyway I’d been i[…]
[…]nd narrow. There's a lady by the name of Carolyn Jackson she came from the BBC Moscow but she's um I think she got a lot to learn actually maybe for&n[…]
[…]f different companies, or, or for just a few major ones, or, or...?Within film?Y es.Within film, I, well I worked for, Granada to start off with, and BBC. Granada was a very forward-thinking company at that time. So, it had a lot of series, likeDisappearing World and, it did do quite a few seri[…]
[…]ard 1:28 I didn't know. I never had any idea. Hadn't the faintest idea? I got into into radio because I joined BBC Plymouth, 5PY, which was a local radio station BBC, of course, had to be in those days, 1932 ,32 and my father knew the chief engineer of the Plym[…]
[…]e never known anybody shoot with such low ratios. I mean when we went out shooting Peter shot the shot and that was it there was no messing about. No BBC 40 takes. It was just what he knew exactly what he wanted it was all absolutely planned that went in his head not on paper. And eventually they th[…]
