[…]needed a catalogue or anything.ANNE HANFORD: No, no. I have to say that idea went on for many years including very renowned people in the BBC. I remember Paul Fox saying to me “Well I can remember all the programmes I made, so why do you need a catalogue?” basically. So, it w[…]
[…]rom the mountains. It smells wonderful. Anyway, the enduring the war they needed to get timber because they couldn't be imported to Aberdeen from the Baltic Sea because of the torpedoes and ships being sunk and all that. So they were cutting down their own the forests in Scotland. And they got Canad[…]
[…] figures unfortunately. I’m a technical guy. But an awful lot of film material, probably all of it, was being shot on 16mm Kodak negative film at the BBC. In fact, I also knew the chief technical guy at Thames TV, and they were doing it as well.PF: Okay. Thanks. I think that pretty much covers all o[…]
[…] on to become Head of the Science Unit at the BBC. So things w ere fitting together. Then after I’d done […]
[…]ys said when he dies he will be known as Richard ‘The Knack’ Lester (laughs) so that was it I did lots of commercials as well as working at the BBC.00:19:50It was recognised at that time - of course I was - I wasn’t BBC staff I was BBC contract - which was another thing that Frank Muir and Den[…]
[…] material is vested in the BECTU History Project (formerly the ACTT History Project) and the right to publish some excerpts may not be allowed.Esther Harris. Tape 1 Side A1Esther Harris. Tape 1 Side ANB: The time codes given here are estimates based on readings from the original cassette recording.T[…]
[…] of his name properly in a minute. Top, top, top director. [Karel Reisz] DARROL BLAKE: And you first met Joe … […]
[…]and he doesn’t like women, and he really liked me, andHe was my patron, to me I think ... he got me out of the into being a Director in the BBC.I love him, love him.So, you know, I’m very fond of Ned, or was, as he’s now, asRENÉE GLYNNE: We’re drinking. Or I’m, I mean, you are not dri[…]
[…]lf, introduce yourself.Howard Lanning 1:14 My name is Howard Lanning. I was born in 1932, in the East End of London, and I've been in the film industry as a Film and Sound Editor for more than 50 years.Derek Threadgall 1:35 Then we get into the meat of it.Unknown Speaker &nbs[…]
