[…]rt of black and jet beads and playing the Wurlitzer, which went out up and down, you know, at the beginning of the film. And Bernard Miles played the commissioner who stood at the door. His only ambition in life was to have had a uniform, and we managed to get him in a uniform. So it was a most char[…]
[…]/Dave Robson Duration: 00:57:01[00:00:00]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. The subject is Liz Forgan, Programme Commissioner for Television and Radio, interviewed by Teddy Darvas, the date is the twenty-fourth of January 2001. This is side one, file 495.Right Li[…]
[…] a series called Omnibus sponsored by the Ford Foundation, um, ballet, opera and all kinds of things were done. But bit by bit until there was an FCC commissioner, I guess in the ‘50s mid ‘50s when it became apparent what was happening, who referred to the wasteland of televisionand it was Ed Murrow[…]
[…]e going through our camera gear and everything was confiscated and we were threatened with jail. And it was only the intervention of the British High Commissioner in Nairobi that actually got us out of the situation, minus the rolls of film. But not an unusual story.Interviewer 17:20 Oka[…]
[…]"Oh my God!" So, anyway, I was told to pack me bags and go. But Ernie Garside was the Production Manager and he used to wire or phone up the...the um,Commissioner at the gate and said "Give him a good bollocking and send him back again!" you see? So used to go, you know, tail between my legs. Go to […]
[…] Jacob was supposed to tell him what was going on. And we were meant to be reliable people that has a bunch of either ex army officers or ex district commissioners. And when I went to he said, we're sending you to, to Shepherds Bush, as if I was being sent off to Africa or somewhere. And we we rely […]
[…]d you do?Jill Craigie: I left my husband... I met Malcolm McDonald, who is a friend of mine, and he gave me his house in Canada while he was the High Commissioner, in Hampstead. And I joined the ARP here and I worked in films, and it was really a very happy period. I was free, I wanted to be free.In[…]
[…]ly, because it incorporated docks, buses, lorries, railways.Michael Legard 38:05 It is British transportJohn Hargreaves 38:06 commissioners as the British transport commission. And those of us who had voted for the Labour government felt that this was the fruition of our ambi[…]
