[…]nstance. And so I got to know people the BBC very well Max more than wits and then and even be senator so when when I went solo. I did have access to BBC. And we were offering a facility in Bristol wonderful. At that time again you got to remember the local BBC was not used by. London. Ealing hadn't[…]
[…]well since and that was a long time ago. She eventually took a job as a buyer, property buyer. Although she is freelance, she is principally with the BBC.R. F. Ah, well that is a very satisfying thing anyway.C. D. She goes under the name of Dorothy Elliott. That was her married name. Apart from that[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]f different companies, or, or for just a few major ones, or, or...?Within film?Y es.Within film, I, well I worked for, Granada to start off with, and BBC. Granada was a very forward-thinking company at that time. So, it had a lot of series, likeDisappearing World and, it did do quite a few seri[…]
[…]e my grandfather was very interested in photography and he also at one time, before I came around, had in fact a movie camera and did a lot of family filming which, much to my sorrow, he gave away the film to a distant cousin of mine andI’ve never seen it. But he in fact did build his own little hom[…]
[…]then somebody from Channel Four randomly saw this film - which I have to say was not my finest work - thought it had showed promise, and then I was a director.Martin Spence  12:35  So you were making a film for Channel 4, I was making a film for Channel 4.  You shouldn't have been say[…]
[…]ve their talents. Um, and er, I thought about it, and I thought, ‘wait a minute! What do I know – nothing!’ but I listened to the radio and I heard a bomber pilot talking about what it was like to be a bomber pilot, and I thought ‘ah – yes, I’ll write a five-minute script about bombers over Berlin’ […]
[…]der 100,000 pounds in those days. So we progress Oh, this is a skate over this. The red rasa. The red tent was Kara touch soft was a very big Russian director. In fact, it was a Russian Italian co production and had been shooting it for about 18 months when I went on. On an off site. I mean, as far […]
[…]he Orient Express with Sidney Lumet for whom I have enormous respect, a wonderfully technical director and very good with actors as well, the perfect director. One of the perfect types of directors. We had in the early weeks of that picture The Murder on the Orient Express we had a lot of criticism […]
