David Croft

[…]  I began to be here a little bit in, in radio, I got a job with a lovely musical called" Charing Cross Road". And was in the papers as the BBC's youngest juveniles that about 16 and a half. And that was really exciting because it was in the St. George's Hall. There weredays that when I wa[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]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     &[…]

Peter Birch

[…] mixer at GB Instructional at Elstree and later for the BBC on a freelance basis. SUMMARY: In this brief interview […]

Johnny (Johnny) Goodman

[…]eeping of Euston Films..." I was in seventh heaven, right? And then one day, as you know, what happened was that Brian Cowgill heard rumours that the BBC were having trouble in renewing their contract for Dallas with the Americans, the price was going up. So, without telling his own chairman apparen[…]

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Alistair Murray Moffat

[…] 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[…]
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