[…] of going there was of course it enabled me to get my ticket ACT didn't have jurisdiction but they were happy enough to recruit membership from, from BBC Television. So I promptly applied for my ticket and got it, in round figures I was at 13000 my membership number. In terms of being a c[…]
[…]The River Plate as a result of that. So I had some mentors. And Basil Dearden was a mentor of mine as well. And in the years following my time at the BBC I became 2nd unit director on The Four Just Men, Basil was very good to me and gave me chunks of series to do which &[…]
[…] what happened was that Brian Cowgill heard rumours that the BBC were having trouble in renewing their contract for Dallas […]
[…] Sydney moved to Pinewood, Shepherd's Bush was sold to the BBC. Um, I was sent to Islington to close it […]
[…]ue to the fact that that writers have territories. And television does tend to be not dominated by the Metropolitan voice inevitably, that's what the BBC was. That's where a lot of writers are. So you suddenly have Alan Plater writing out of how you have Tom Haddaway. Riding out of Newcastle. You se[…]
[…]But he had a similar ambivalence with television: he could see that some of the television that was being produced was important, particularly by the BBC, and we should take some television but on a highly selective basis. He was very, very, firm about that and he wasn’t terribly keen on taking the […]
[…]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,[…]
[…]t that far! Roy Fowler: What happened? Do you know the details? Andy Worker: Well Sydney moved to Pinewood, Shepherd's Bush was sold to the BBC. Um, I was sent to Islington to close it down, and after about a year of that, Ken Maybank [?] said, "You should go on freelance production," whic[…]
[…] in 13 languages and I got the translators from the BBC, whatever language came up RF : You're based where? […]
