John Frame

[…] out of the window! But we all coped and it was fine. But the best joy I had at STV was a Director called Dougie Moodie. Douglas Moodie. He came from BBC to STV and it was Ibsen's The Wild Duck, the play. I'd seen it at the Festival and Douglas's interpretation of it, television-wise, was unbelievab[…]

John Shirley

[…]sic library. And I think he had at one time been in theUnknown Speaker  27:33  music publishingJohn Shirley  27:34  know, for the BBC, not a DJ, but the guy that puts his stuff on that sort of thing. I think so I'm not sure anyway, programmer system, whatever. And the remarkable […]

Frances Cockburn

[…]ers by fillers what we meant was what you'd say commercials today. But they had a style that was different from commercials. And they were run by the BBC and the and and ITV at the time. a certain amount of time was was given as a sort of goodwill gesture also because I think they didn't sell all th[…]

Peter Sargent

[…]unds like two years for Ealing... You went there in 1937 until 1939...PS. Yes.. yes.. And I liked Ealing very much... And way after the war, when the BBC formed a film unit, and I got in, they bought Ealing Studios, and it was home from home, because I went there, and one of the electricians who'd k[…]

Agnes Wilkie

[…]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 […]

Roy Lockett

[…]e union importantly, which were about the future of the film industry, which were about the future of television, should we have a second, should the BBC have a second channel, should they have a second channel. What should we do with Channel Four, should we have Channel Four and, you know, politica[…]

Diane Tammes

[…]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[…]
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