[…]y turned up, occupied a role and a designation, so to speak, and there was one person with agoraphobia who never went out, for example, who worked in Current Affairs. There were other people who read the papers all morning, went out to lunch, came back and had a nice sleep and so on! It was a functi[…]
[…]f a legend, if he's still about. Stuart knew everybody and everything and I had a happy year or so there before David Scott, who was running News and Current Affairs, thought I should move on and become - they call them 'subs' in the Newsroom, they still had old-fashioned subs where you edited the c[…]
[…]ide on location with a Drama? R: Oh yeah! Yeah, yeah. I: There would be a range of different skills? R: Yep. I mean, you know, you did Current Affairs, Religion, Drama and Light Entertainment and they all demanded different skills. Now, looking back, it was, the Religious Department d[…]
[…]now. And obviously, Jan Younghusband, who was commissioning it, was there and we went to her office. And, you know, we met Dorothy, who's the head of current affairs, and that, so it was... Dylan was able to go back and go, "No, you know, this, this is this is real." You know, the ridiculousness, an[…]
[…]bout the last weeks… PB-C: Well the system was that after a time of doing a normal programme, you would be seconded, if that’s the right word to Current Affairs. Normally speaking for a couple of years, so again, your experience was terrific, and I was taken out to lunch, it was very bizarre, b[…]
[…] the watch a semifinal, which you'll be pleased to hear. I can tell from your demeanour, we lost Old Trafford, I think it might have been against our current if it was up against Newcastle or against Man United anyway, we lost it and that can't be Monday night because there's Old Trafford, either Ne[…]
[…]ity and of course on an everyday basis, the Imperial War Museum is being asked for content to go into this piece of news or a bit of reflective for a current affairs piece or something, but I’m thinking in particular of those series which focused on archive film which predominantly came from The Imp[…]
[…]nee were fascinating too. So the very first one was a series with James Burke called “Connections”. I also worked on the old “Tonight” programme, the current affairs programme which was extraordinary. And on the drama “Shoestring” which was also shooting at Ealing Studios, and so quite a rich and va[…]
