BRITISH ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY PROJECT INTERVIEW No 805 PETER WILLIAMS (PW) INTERVIEWED BY MARTIN SMITH (MS) RECORDED at SWALE MEDIA ARTS CENTRE, SITTINGBOUNE KENT on 03 November 2021 Commenced 12.30pm; total duration 2h 47m PART 1TDF 14646_01 (RE-START AT 0[…]
[…]e you. I mean one of the personalities that they used to have in STV I thought, in my day, were people like John Toye who was an absolutely wonderful Presenter! He had a wonderful charisma about him. Everybody didn't like him personally but that was one of those things that people didn't, but as a p[…]
[…]ited by Panorama as Studio Director. This was when Jeremy Isaacs was Editor. Hugely buoyant and adventurous period. But Jeremy wanted to do away with presenters and Robin Day didn’t like this, engineered a coup, got Jeremy ousted. Jeremy then pitched up at Rediffusion before it became Thames, starte[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 367[Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: 2003-11-18Interview Date: 1995-09-22 Interviewers: Rodney GieslerInterviewee: Dicky Leeman Tape 1, Side 1Rodney Giesler: This is an interview with Dicky Leeman, by Rodney Giesler, in Bognor Regis. It'[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this[…]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using OtterIt provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this intervi[…]
[…]g I don't remember what you were asking me. But then I sat watching him doing it, you know? I'm just telling you, what you perhaps I should say, as a presenter this, I suddenly get struck every now and then when I'm telling people, things like this. You want to how much am I making this up? I'm quit[…]
[…]make his own judgements on that. Sometimes they would be hauled over the coals and said, you know... he did not believe in the producer being his own presenter, his own... because he said that is not the function, we are an entrepreneurial broadcasting organisation and we use other people, we do not[…]
BECTU History ProjectInterview no: 176Interviewee: Cynthia MoodyInterviewer: Margaret Thomson (1)/Manny Yospa (2) Duration: 02:01:50 COPYRIGHT: No use may be made of any interview material without the permission of the BECTU History Project (http://www.histor[…]
