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[…]s quite different. I mean, there was a question of affecting the bottom it's suitability or saleability for foreign markets. Aha. In fact, it was the BBC, a man called Eric Fauci. It was a BBC producer called me up one day, said he'd like to meet me for a drink. So I got a great idea. So we met for […]

[…]s, you know, on the booze. He had to give up drink and some of his homosexual capers and whatnot.Q Talking about Kodak - what about negotiations with BBC. Did you ever get...A No, no. At that time they had appointed this Bill Barnard(?) assigned. There were odd things I did but no negotiations of an[…]

[…]l Street eventually closed down. Nothing to do with the fact that I came and joined them. The main shop was in Queen Margaret Drive, not far from the BBC, and eventually I was decanted up to Queen Margaret Drive and I stayed there for six years but the one thing about that job, even though I was sur[…]

[…]nbsp;I: Except yourself?! R: I can't think of any. Certainly none of my year. I mean, some of them, Roddy McMillan and Johnnie Grieve went in to BBC and did the Boat thing - what's it called? I2: Para Handy? I: Yes! R: Para Handy, yes, thank you very much! But they didn't go into[…]

[…]r by 9 ‘o’ clock, live. DB: Extraordinary. GG: So I got, I did that and then by that time I was at Westminster. There was a time – yes, the BBC were looking for someone to play Richard the Second – as a boy, in a thing called March of the Peasants, and they saw me and they wanted me to do […]

[…]on’t get a lot of parts with an accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was about... How old w[…]

[…]me -  all the commercial companies that overstaffed to begin with, and they were now shedding staff. So it was even worse and I'd applied to the BBC to get a job as a trainee cameraman and failed that. I mean, I, you know, they'd ask if you're a member of a camera club, or I mean, it was bizarr[…]