[…]es, who was The BBC Librarian, she was a great friend of Sir John Reith, and she told me in no uncertain terms there was no sort of job going in Broadcasting House, which I found very dashing because Broadcasting House was Mecca in those days, you know, glamorous and all that. She then told me about[…]
[…]; D at all, I could, but of course in those days we had main channels with great, huge machines, built you would think in a shipyard, you know, heavy castings and all the rest of it, and er...Alan Lawson : This was Western wasn't it?Gordon McCallum : Western Electrical Equipment, yes. And monitory r[…]
[…] built you would think in a shipyard, you know, heavy castings and all the rest of it, and er... Alan […]
[…]ause we both live in Notting Hill and driving, you know. And so I inevitably ended up more or less being Steven's driver. And he would talk about the casting, and he would talk about the crewing and and and say, What do you think Rebecca, you know? And that was incredibly good education. And driving[…]
[…] um, he managed to go, and, well like most of the ships who went actually, he was sunk, but he was captured, and he finished up a few days later broadcasting for the Italian radio - which didn't go down very well. So, that was the only time they actually stopped us going, but otherwise I used to ign[…]
[…]e published and they persuade people like the IBA that there is rationalityin their view. But of course one cannot share that view if you are in broadcasting, you must alwayspublish, you must not be persuaded it is unreasonable not to publish. It is an absolute article of faiththat you must publish […]
[…] was in the casting that the revolution took place. The Casting Director was Margaret Morris, and Tony and the first Director […]
[…] in plays and things like that but also to direct. I started directing there, plays, and I had a programme, I also had a programme on the Forces Broadcasting Service - a weekly programme - of classical music requests, which I used to do for FBS every week. So, I was in Malta for three years and[…]
[…]ich is a book written by Jon Krakauer about a Everest expedition that went wrong. And there's some discussion about that job. And then I believe, for casting reasons, it sort of got put to one side. But I guess somebody Darrol Blake 28:48 Was it a period story? […]
[…]ad the university background that the others had. SC: Was he? I didn’t realise that. I suppose it’s true because almost everybody else among the directors and producers came from, had a university background. DM: Yes. SC: I don’t think Basil needed to have felt that way because people[…]
