[…]oor of this pub I could hear myself playing the piano. I thought, I'm going crackers! But I wasn't, it was the same soundtrack being broadcast by the BBC.Roy Fowler: Extraordinary. And you recognised your touch?Eddie Dryhurst: Well I naturally recognised the tune right away and, I reckoned how funny[…]
[…] we’ve got to ask today. So, I wonder if you could just begin by giving an overview – if I can take you back slightly – in how your early interest in film and colour photography started. Where did that spark on interest come from?CF: I started out… my first work as such was for Kodak, and there was […]
[…]words. And he did and he appliedUnknown Speaker  1:20  Well, he built a reputation obviously with the broadcaster he was known all day. The BBC. Yes.Unknown Speaker  1:27  Oh, he wasn't.Unknown Speaker  1:31  I mean, 70 Have you been lied? Yes. ButUnknown Speaker  […]
[…] situation he was in – he felt his function was to keep costs down and just be tough about money generally.AL: Did you work with him when he became a director.SC: No. He didn't make anything very distinguished – mainly quota quickies which a lot of directors did in those days.AL: You've mentioned St[…]
[…]became, it became possible to use film on a touch screen basis. The galleries were re-opened and restructured in 1989 and [Alan] Borg oversaw that as Director. And it was Clive who was responsible for putting film very much into the galleries and it was there you could stand alongside a V2 or V1 roc[…]
[…] for a few minutes and then he said Now you're just going to see Eric bomber Eric Palmer. His partner was ahead of you fine bird it was a very im[…]
[…]hief secretary of the Gambia going, in charge, because he's now working at the Ukraine. He's going. And there's a wonderful man called Sir Percy Wynn Harris. Says, Yes, I know him. He said, who used to be the governor of Kenya. He has a yacht on the river, on the on the Gambia River, and you're goin[…]
[…]ary at Brentford. So I went along and had an interview for that. And I thought, Oh, this is great, really, I got the job. Because it's a way into the BBC.Unknown Speaker  3:42  And I can perhaps apply for jobsUnknown Speaker  3:45  while I'm in you know, so advertised and it was […]
[…] so many seconds to get up to speed and into sync and you couldn’t hurry it.CR: Obviously you collaborated with your team, and other teams within the BBC. Did you have much liaison with personnel outside the corporation? So, directors or distributors, film producers who were…TE: Certainly people at […]
[…]alta. He doesn't know how much I admire him. He never knew. I don't think wonderful. Could sketch out what he had in mind. Intelligent producer was a bomber pilot during the Warner, can't remember him at all. Jeffrey wood, which is nobody remembers him, but he was very good anyway. There we are. So […]
