[…]ired affect.So I arrived as the assistant head with BBC2 on the horizon, it wasn't fully decided but it looked as though we were going to get another channel. With a decent number of really fixed slots on BBC, on BBC1 as it was later known on the television, with decent budgets and in the nicest way[…]
[…] appointment to see my lawyer then, I have to see my lawyer about my will. So, I’m not sure what days he isn’t going to be. And he’s in a court case, Channel 4 court case, something to do with, some programme they showed, and that could go into two days, so it’s possible that, if it does I’d have Tu[…]
[…]o London, worked on theHam and High for about five years, then the Evening Standard, then The GuardianWoman’s Page, and then when Channel 4 began I went to interview Jeremy Isaacs for The Guardian and just before he started Channel 4 it was announced that he was going t[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]just about plug.Yes.But I mean you could work, I mean you didn't work ‘B’ with, if ‘A’ was on the air.Yes.Because, because it, there was only the one channel.Mm.So if you'd got ‘A’ going out live, and of course as we all know, the pictures were all upside down in the viewfinders and if you wanted a […]
[…] air. Yes. Because, because it, there was only the one channel. Mm. So if you'd got ‘A’ going out live, […]
[…]ut a very wide swathe or deep drift oftalent that we had. A lot of them moved on from Granada like Jeremy Isaacs who went toRediffusion, BBC; Thames, Channel Four. Graham McDonald who became something veryimportant in the BBC, Mark Shivas, John Birch who is now the Deputy Director General, neverthou[…]
[…] Granada like Jeremy Isaacs who went to Rediffusion, BBC; Thames, Channel Four. Graham McDonald who became something very important in the […]
[…]and it was about that time, it was about, that would have been the early part of 1982, that Jeremy Isaacs was appointed as the new Chief Executive of Channel 4 and announced they were looking for ideas, and Vicky and I were at an event together, sorry Vicky Wegg-Prosser and I were at an event togeth[…]
[…]ou like to do it and that's why I've got no hope I said John's producing it I said when you use my name I'll be off. So first occasion is down to the Channel Islands and older older now and we're on the jetty on the first morning Roy has given us the first shot and we're doing the first shot down th[…]
