[…]d I've been fortunate – fortunate with the grammar school, fortunate with my parents, fortunate to find the BBC even find the right department of the BBC. Fortunate to meet up with Hugh Carleton Greene and all those superb intellectuals the capacities of everybody there and to indeed to have joined […]
[…] or 4 o'clock, and we saw them come over, and... it was a brilliant summer's day, I remember it well. And the sun was catching the silver of both the Bombers and the Spitfires... it got in amongst them like a little shoal of minnows going amongst the herring, you might say. You could see these littl[…]
[…]be told what I can do and can't do by these jumped up nobodies. They were to me, and I was quite determined to get into the film industry through the BBC.         SIDE 2, TAPE 1 John Schlesinger: Well it was in those days, I also had run ins with Gra[…]
[…]..Alan Lawson: Was it Sandy McPherson?David Robson: No, it was - Jimmy Bell, Jimmy Bell. And we used to do a broadcast from there once a week for the BBC. And one day, in the mornings this was - the cleaners had to be dead quiet during the half an hour transmission - and there was a cue system. They[…]
[…]ple they’re quite insane. I was doing those things in-between and also doing, it was actually into the 80s I started doing a lot of work for the BBC. The BBC asked me to do a little Drama thing which was called Person to Personabout a bicycle company which they actually wanted to use for t[…]
[…]ditor. I was really rather affronted when they said, well, outside work doesn't count as an even though it was for the BBC and was transmitted by the BBC. No, no, no, no.Simon Rose  1:05:44  And she she was known as sort of quite a glamorous actress during the war, I think that this must h[…]
[…]ditor. I was really rather affronted when they said, well, outside work doesn't count as an even though it was for the BBC and was transmitted by the BBC. No, no, no, no.Simon Rose  1:05:44  And she she was known as sort of quite a glamorous actress during the war, I think that this must h[…]
[…]t take you back a few steps… tell us about National Service BAWhen I first left school in 1950, the first application for a job was to the BBC. Cos I was mad… I had already written up to the BBC for tickets for Variety Bandbox and things like that, to go out to the People’s Palace i[…]
[…]process has become so complex?  [20.00 mins]WR: I don't think the complexity makes much difference, it might, but it so much depends on the director. LH: One of the things I think somehow escapes, and it might even be an improvement, now that you have to have, particularly on big film[…]
