Dennis Main Wilson

[…]uld you believe. We played town halls and things all over Britain, always using a local choir. We were put opposite I think 20 Questions on the other channel and we knocked them out of the ratings and Kenneth Adam was furious. I remember that. But there it is, the all singing Mitchells, superb quali[…]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]on. And David Francis was I think one of the first Television-CJ: He was the first TV Officer, yes.MW: - television was coming a couple or three channels anyway from the late‘50s, a torrent of stuff- CJ: That’s right.MW: How did the Archive approach television then? I mean I know it’s prob[…]

Brian Pritchard

[…]for that was television because television got to the point where they were prepared to buy anything. They need product because, if you look how many channels there are now, they buy anything. And the BBC told us as a lab once, “Any film you’ve got, we’ll buy, and we don’t care if you don’t know who[…]
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