Maurice Askew

[…]se [Hulton?] was absolutely new you know, it had just been installed - it all worked! It was one of the first, well if not the first post war Westrex Channel - well it was Western Electric then, it wasn't Westrex for some years. And the first music session here I recollect was George Melachrino and […]

Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]t is purely, more or less, a video unit.Film hardly comes into it at all, probably only if it's commissioned.They have just made a film promoting the Channel Tunnel which is by theChannel Tunnel Consortium and that is made on film. But they'rebasically down to video, they don't even possess a cuttin[…]

Terry Marcel

[…] my break. The other guy worked with Jim All right. Pluto fan films. He's someone you want to get ahold of, he's fantastic. He put he found a deal at Channel Five. And we put that we shot that in New Zealand as well. We did two series of that, and did very well. Great ratings. And we were gonna do a[…]

John Agnew

[…]d have stayed to do News but the Features stuff, I wanted to continue to do that, which I still do. I: So, that would be in the new environment, Channel Four and... R: Up against that, yes. I: OK but it sounds like you made some good career choices and you've had a great job and it's […]

Derek Williams

[…]r best didn't didn't go down well on television. And in any case, they were rather neglected by television and, and refused, generally refused by the channels. So you couldn't say that we had a significant outlet on television at all. So that drove us that there remains what was called non theatrica[…]

Derek Malcolm

[…]years ago. It's an age of trivia, advertising driven age of trivia and this sort of search for young readers at all costs. The only film programme on Channel Four is movie watch, which is the most Gore blimey programme it could we ever, ever listen to. The other day the times printed an article by t[…]
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