[…]ike that. And then I saw that I had in my mind that I'd like to be a cameraman. And so I wrote it while I was at school in sixth form, I wrote to the BBC and said, Are there any vacancies as an assistant cameraman? And they said, Are you too young, you got to be 2021 because you'll be living out of […]
[…] you give us a bit of your sort of early educational background?I think my very first school was a convent that no longer exists; in fact I think the BBC had kind of built around there in Maida Vale. Then I went to a preparatory school then I went to, it was called then, Paddington and Maida Vale Hi[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]f art school at Farnham, and I should say that painting is also a thing in my family. I wasn't painting but I was being painted. And I applied to the BBC and it shot through very quickly. It was how lucky I suddenly got this invitation from one called Gertrude Leonard and met John O Bride? not at th[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
