[…]g as many Network programmes as we did and I thought, well, I'd always wanted to do something else and so I went off and did it. I: What was the catalyst for the change? I mean there was the 1990 Broadcasting Act. R: Yeah, it was certainly, there were two things that happened politically. […]
[…]that’s affected the collection at the Imperial War Museum and the change in the media really. RS: Well, the Falklands War was actually more of a catalyst in re-awakening the forces’ own interest in recording their own activities, because after the winding-up of the service film units in the lat[…]
[…]t they wanted to go with the big name quite understandably, because it was Julia Roberts and his money invested. But it was the thing that really the catalyst that made me leave the BBC, because I thought I'm never gonna get a movie if I'm still a BBC.Unknown Speaker  23:31  So I sort of I[…]
[…]ction was, oh yeah. I mean, I don't, I guess, I guess, actually, David Gothard was involved here again, and he pops up all over the place, an amazing catalyst. And he knew Stephen Frears and I had introduced, I didn't know, somehow recommended me to Stephen, and I went to see Steven, and it transpir[…]
[…] most of the GPO people were yet, you know, they were all tied up with mass observation and all movements of the 30s. So, presumably, he was an ideal catalyst to bring in to reinvigorate documentary movement.Joe Mendoza  12:45  That was the feeling I've got when I was allowed to really was[…]
