[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ovely sunny weather in a calm, calm river. And halfway through the sequence, the sun went in. The wind came up and the Thames looked like the English Channel. And for three days, the unit set on their backsides doing nothing. And I began to get nervous even in all right. Well, they didn't. They didn[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] were bands and a magazine and some plays. And then these girls said, 'well, we're fed up with doing plays'. And I said, 'well, let's make a film for Channel 4'. And I knew nothing about making films, I didn't know you were supposed to get a commission (laughter). I just thought, Channel 4 had start[…]
[…]: And so we had new... BT-H redesigned the equipment, lovely quality stuff it was. We had to have separate amplifiers and everything for all the four channels, plus the optical tracks of an ordinary programme. And we had to adapt the projectors so that underneath the top spool was the sound pull-thr[…]
[…]wn Speaker  48:19  That was just a dummy. IRoy Fowler  48:21  think we know, no, actually, we've crossed over. You're on the left channel. I'm on the right,Unknown Speaker  48:33  about where there,Roy Fowler  48:35  yeah, it's fine anyway. Yeah, pick up. Sorr[…]
