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[…]ng back as quickly as possible. And. Over occupied France coming down. Over the channel. We had a fighter escort in landing at. Lyneham in Wiltshire and then I&[…]

[…]ts of Second World War in action so myself and fellow ACT member Peter Handford were dispatched into Northern Europe with a portable Western Electric channel to record authentic sound effects which was rather a dangerous undertaking. We had all our equipment mounted in a little station wagon and we […]

[…]itten, were over and above. I mean, they were paid for separately, andSpeaker 1  44:41  if the unit had been in existence, we live down the Channel Tunnel from start to finish, which somebody presume is doing, yes, butSpeaker 2  44:51  I mean, I think the I should imagine that th[…]

[…]at kind of production wasSpeaker 2  39:57  that that was so. The Portman quintet productions. So it was an independent production with four channel four. I believe that tie up with Channel FourUnknown Speaker  40:22  was that another location?Unknown Speaker  40:23  Tha[…]

[…]kind of see that's how ITV used to be. The change in balance happened when the advertising market started to split up when the resource wasn't there. Channel Four didn't have a big impact. Channel Five, you could start to see it. All the satellite channels definitely eroded the marketplace and with […]

[…]y, which were about the future of the film industry, which were about the future of television, should we have a second, should the BBC have a second channel, should they have a second channel. What should we do with Channel Four, should we have Channel Four and, you know, political and social and c[…]

[…]e hospice had all sorts of cupboards and magazine racks and a darkroom and big cable hooks in cupboards. And on there, we would have a Western rx 500 channel, which was an optical channel that had had a magnetic head put in it. And instead of where the magazine went, there were two spool holders. An[…]

[…]seemed a lot, and the direction of policy began to change. Actually it quite quickly began to change. The other thing that happened was the coming of Channel Four, which opened up new possibilities as the other ones were closing down, and in a sense inaugurated a very very interesting era when peopl[…]

[…]of producers, particularly in television, are concerned about budgets. In the incredible freelance jobs that we do the one and a quarter million that Channel 4 put up for Four Weddings and a Funeral, which was an horrendous budget, like seventeen million I think, originally. Got its money back, of c[…]

[…]e the chipies had the chippies in and the whole lot, you know, everything. And so and I had, by that time, put it in motion to leave the BBC, because Channel Four had started. And I wanted to start up my own thing. And I knew I was no hope of doing anything outside. Because I wanted to be an indepen[…]