[…]m. He went back to Rediffusion. He became the Head of Features and, of course, eventually the Director of Programmes and so on, and on to Channel 4, etc. But no doubt the year at the BBC was not a happy one, for him or for the BBC. Political programmes grew, I sup[…]
[…] them still around? Oh yes. When I finally went to Channel Four, this is quite funny, thirteen years ago, Mike Custer […]
[…] DRAFT Tape 1 Side AAnd I wrote a story, which I’ve still got upstairs. I don’t know why I called him Eve because I thought anything foreign over the Channel Eve might be Hungarian, I didn’t know one word.SF: [Laughter].I didn’t know any Hungarian names, and wrote this thing about what it must be li[…]
[…]good working relationship with Alan Bleasdale who wrote quite a lot of the stuff for the Mersey Pirate and we developed one of his books, Scully, for Channel Four and that became a Drama series for Channel Four. I produced comedy programmes. We did a programme called Alfresco. I spent about a year p[…]
[…], at least, into a sort of renaissance man with so many aptitudes and interests. Well,Keith Ewart 1:53 I've got very few, but they're all channeled. I mean, the only I've got music and photography, really, admittedly, I fly. But that is, that is, that is the odd man out. But on the whole[…]
[…] all these ideas and notions through a kind of a channel which is me, and it comes out of the […]
[…] on the what do you call the MTBS? That's right, empty bees, the very fast boats were armed, and they used to meet the E boats on German side and the channel somewhere. And then they knew each other, because they always had to listen in. And I was taken along so I can listen in, not only photograph,[…]
[…]milton, member of the BECTU History Project committee, the date Monday the 15th of August 1994. This is tape one side one. So this is JPH on the left channel, Johnny when he speaks will be on the right channel. I'm referring to him as Johnny because there are so many Johns in this industry it gets v[…]
[…]they had to develop those technical resources that they had full command of which was disc recording. So there were enormous number of disc recording channels created during the war in order to service those exiled broadcasters. At the end of the war the BBC found itself lagging far behind in that a[…]
[…]e of this was cleared with our Head Office or 20th Century Fox who only found out about it when the newspaper coverage reached them through the usual channels. The night itself provided a full house and while Ted was out front of the curtain talking about the charity that would be benefiting, I was […]
