[…]in amount of reality about plays and about series I think what is going on now is is excessive and is geared to getting ratings. And that's where the BBC are falling down and they're actually entering the ratings war and they don't need to. They shouldn't have to but I just I don't like saying that […]
[…]t time were one of the first people on television to produce wildlife films. And Armand was a Belgian. And they wanted they got the contract with the BBC to produce these half hour programmes. But they needed to cut back occasionally to Armando & Michaela in a studio situation, explaining […]
[…]pe. So more towards the end of the 50’s and of course by the end of the 50’s Michael Balcon had left the studio’s and the studio had gone over to the BBC, apropos, which all those scores that Una talked about apart from the Vaughan William scores for Scott, which were in the archive in the music dep[…]
[…]ave made some effort to do it. You were happy with your work?Norman Fisher: Yes indeed. At one stage I was wondering if it would be any better in the BBC but, anyway, so much short filming work was coming along I dropped that one. Just as well I did because the BBC ultimately has shut down its film […]
[…]my own. I was when I was young. But as soon as I got involved, I became Chairman of the bloody Composers Guild, etc., etc., fighting battles with the BBC, et al. And since I was forty I've never been on my own at all. If you're talking about the lonely artist you haven't got one here.There are lonel[…]
[…]in nothing to do with the RAF but we just happened to be there.We were constantly looking for stories. We were 1ike correspondents in uniform and the BBC had a habit, we used to get news from them before anyone else and it was wildly inaccurate sometimes. They announced the fall of Holland. They sai[…]
