[…]e equipment we were using and a chance to do different work. I was about thirty then at the time and so, that opportunity comes along and you want to challenge yourself and so you think, well, we'd be building an edit suite from the ground up and shopping for all the kit and it's always nice to spen[…]
[…]ere reminded about or you reminded us about, having reminded yourself that you can claim to have been on a team that was undefeated on the University Challenge. Can you say more about that? RS: [laughs] Oh yes! That was in 2006. It was one of the seasons that the University Challenge team durin[…]
[…] ranks to enable you to cruise round and not be challenged. John Aldred: We were not give n honorary ranks. […]
[…] like to come work with me? On help, he went to edit help at Twickenham film studios. I said yes, no, I'd love to have to do that in gracchi it was a challenge. It was something different. And I was I think MGM was still there was never any issues of the time around MGM closing down or being sold or[…]
[…]And Howard on added another couple of things to BBC and then they invited me to go on to start this script department which I must say was great, fun challenge to do. I discovered the negative, nobody really wondered. And earlier, I thought I was merely a sort of segment commander of the drama depar[…]
[…]tar fire at that time not on us at any rate.Peter Musgrave: Were you and Peter Handford given ordinary ranks to enable you to cruise round and not be challenged.John Aldred: We were not given honorary ranks. We had the most impressive document, an identity card, and it was signed by General Eisenhow[…]
[…]g I cannot. Oh, we don't just want a Man Behind A Desk telling us about it. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know that that's true. I would almost challenge any product on which they're spending a million pounds. Give me a writer of my choice, difficult to find. Start with Johnny Spain, I suppose[…]
[…]should be, and how he should, how he should react. For six months I was at Rhodesia House a job which I enjoyed immensely because of the professional challenges. It was during that time, of course, the Ian Smith came to London for his last meeting with the British government. And that was an extreme[…]
[…]and never again. And explained why I was late, as I was working so late, he felt I had a little justification for being timid as late and I was never challenged again. Now, of course, that was in 39 in September, the war broke out, and a sort of tremor, rather went through the studio. It was to what[…]
