[…]ld be rung or anything because we were all on the stage. So that was about, I was there for about two years and then, as I say, I left and joined The BBC.But that gave you presumably a general sympathy with the lot of the actor?Oh yes, absolutely.[Laughter] And also the thing was very valuable I tho[…]
[…]nior position?Michael Aldridge  3:27  Yes, they did. Well, I worked mainly in news and current affairs in The Grove when I started with the BBC. I didn't spend much time at Ealing, it was mainly at The Grove. And then from The Grove, I went to Bristol and joined their film unit, which alth[…]
[…]ell I don't know, there was but I was there and I was with an American art director named Bob Haass who was a personal friend. He was a Universal art director. And I mean it was just everybody who was in the room decided what they were going to do and they joined. And it was just like that!Rodney Gi[…]
[…]nbsp;The copyright of this recording is vested in the actt history project.Charlotte Jennings, artist, daughter of Humphrey Jennings, the documentary film director, poet, and artist,recorded on the 17th of December 1990. side one interview, Alan Lawson Well was was not, you know, when, when and wher[…]
[…]o try and change?CM: Yeah and also to learn. One of the films I love the most is Made in Britain with Tim Roth. Alan Clarke, to me, was a genius of a director. That happened almost just when we were… just before we shot A World Apart, I worked with Alan and Tim Roth on Made on Britain. To me that wa[…]
[…]ack Limelight out at ABC Studios, Boreham Wood, I said any chance of getting the job of your stand in. He said you'11 have to go along to the casting director. He said I'll speak to him. He came back the next night and said go along and see somebody called Anderson, and this chap obviously didn't wa[…]
[…]use tape-recording wasn't even invented in those days and so they had to record on film if they wanted to repeat it, so that's the way I got into the BBC.DB. The maiden flight of Concorde... That sounds quite... When did Concorde begin to fly...MS. About 25 years ago, wasn't it?DB. 1 thought so... 1[…]
[…]wn chairman apparently, or telling the other managing directors of ITV, he secretly tried to negotiate a deal where he could buy Dallas away from the BBC. Now in America you get the congressional medal of honour for stealing another show from somebody else, but in England what happened was that appa[…]
[…]f a lot of stuff and I did, I also got rid of sadly all my theatre programmes back to 1945, which I wish I had now.Yes.1952, then I worked for Lionel Harris. This is all guest producers now you see, all big stuff. Lionel Harris, and I did a lot with him and we did musicals. We did The Comedy of[…]
[…]k away from it so that the journalist could do the questions without corpsing. There was one quite famous journalist now, Sally McNair, who works for BBC. She was a Reporter on Scottish Television and she was prone to giggle and I remember filming her doing a piece to camera and I had to put my coat[…]
