[…]n this because at the time, when the new Board came in, quite a lot of us on the shop floor thought at that point this could go very bad, sort of the Channel Four's background here, the model there is Publisher/Contractor and you're a Publisher/Producer, this could mean the way in which we can do bu[…]
[…]e TV landscape changed utterly in the eighteen, nineteen years that I was at STV. In the beginning, as I say, we had a monopoly of advertising sales, Channel Four had just launched. Just launched! And we broadcast to huge numbers of people, huge numbers! As Dougie Rae used to call it, Coast to Coast[…]
[…]was further down the line! I: Just for the record, what was that? R: Sky Scottish was a collaboration between STV and Sky to put a Scottish channel and to present it to the Scottish Diaspora. That was the principle of it and my role in it was to do Scotland Today so Scottish News that woul[…]
[…]eah. And that television happened and then one television led to another, actually. DB: That was of course BBC, because there weren’t any [other channels].GG: BBC yeah. In Lime Grove – old Lime Grove. I can still smell it – that wonderful smell it had, yes? Extraordinary.There were a group, a g[…]
[…]ore contained than the Second World War archive. It just is physically less of it. Some of the people – there was the Hugh Straughan series, made for Channel 4, [The First World War DS] and there was the PBS series called… The Great War: 1914-18 in England because they didn’t want it confused with t[…]
[…] very I mean, it was impossible thing for Tony and I to get together in three weeks is what he asked us to do. And I remember editing it down editing channel and down. And I was so exhausted, I came out each evening and they were running A Hard Day's Night in the nearby cinema. Two nights running ju[…]
[…] Because I was given all sorts of jobs and I was anti- submarine vessel and all sorts of things I did. And during this very [?], on patrol out in the channel, when Mickey said - well Mickey had made 'One of our Aircraft is Missing' a propaganda film for the Dutch. And it was really very good, with G[…]
[…]nglish one and a Dutch one at Harwich at the same time, so about 2000 people all coming to go through customs. And 999 of them went through the green Channel and I went through the red channel, I had stuff to declare anyway. Because it's much quicker to go through the red channel, I was the only one[…]
[…]hadn't seen a single film and we're running Grandville that on the east coast on the west coast, in Brittany, and the Germans were hanging out in the Channel Islands, we were still being shelled. And this German officers, anything you'd like ice, I'd love to see a movie. So always says that's no pro[…]
[…]he studio in colour. I worked in colour but only on film.There was major change in the late ‘60s, and it was cause by colour, the arrival of a second channel and by rising costs. MacKinsey?* As far as I was affected David Attenborough, Head of Channel 2 came and said “Did I have anything against doi[…]
