[…]ry Jack Hawkins and detective story. And after that, it was announced at the end of that was announced that the studio was closing, being sold to the BBC. And we were tipped off. So you boys are okay, you will come with us to MGM. And that's great, got no problem. And I was the only person left in t[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] recherche as all her suggested recipes are far too expensive. She was married and is in fact still married to number three he was at one time in the BBC called John Shearer. He was known as 'Vulcan the Exterminator' because he was responsible for cleaning everybody out making them redundant. And Ji[…]
[…]ppose about 1963 as far as color started I forget exactly what it was that BBC toured going on but later than that I think that a little later that ye[…]
[…]me kickstarted. And I wanted obviously in my final year I started applying for jobs and I applied for the Trainee Assistant Producer scheme in London BBC and also a Trainee Assistant Editor. I did an interview in Manchester for BBC Manchester as an Assistant Editor. And I think I went to Yorkshire T[…]
[…]sspenny (?) Road Hendon and then I had a whole room - for the - to keep the equipment in. And that was when I would have first been in touch with the BBC would have been would, have been from the spare bedroom at 4 Cresspenny Road (?) That’s where you would have phoned me or I would have phoned you.[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] program. But it was his program and I was caught in between. I never bet bit. It was kind of a mediator and there was one program we wanted to do on BBC announcers. We had Mac Hobley . Sylvia Peters I think it was very good. And we did a whole program based on BBC announcements and we we had a lot […]
