[…]didn’t endear me to him and he said, ‘No, not like a light entertainment programme, we’re going to do this’. And it was he who instigated that he got David Frost in and I did the first programme with David Frost called the Twist programme. We did a little light entertainment show abou[…]
[…]Moffat: Are you talking about the boys or the staff?Philip Donnellan: I'm talking about the boys and the staff. The staff, well my housemaster David Spinney who wrote that letter I just read to you, was actually in the Royal Naval Reserve. He was a tremendously keen naval man and 90% of our h[…]
[…]nk he set us a hallmark in dramatic visual presentation. I don't know of any other director, not even Hitchcock, who could would be superior, or even David Lean, who I think is one of the English might say visual masters, Director. It's not only clever with his artist, but he's also very clever from[…]
behp 0629-t-harry-fowler-transcriptInterviewee: Harry Fowler [HF]Interviewer: David McGillivray [McG]With occasional interventions by Mrs Catherine “Kay” Fowler [KF]Transcription by David Sharp.NB: Some background noise is present from time to time. Where possible I have clarified points made, and i[…]
[…]of it in broadcasting and the day after the Govan Election there was an STV reception at the Liberal Democrat Conference in the Corran Halls in Oban. David Scott who was, at that time, Head of News and Current Affairs of STV said, "I would like you to come and work for STV in the run up to the next […]
[…]ed there. A lot of people lived there, Will Hay lived there for a long time, I lived there. There was an awful lot of stars lived there. I introduced David Lean to Kay Walsh his first wife there, because I think David lived there for a while. And Billy Wilder's brother, Bob Wilder. Bud Flanagan. Mar[…]
[…]r 07:13Well when I went to BIP I was living in Mill Hill and I used to get myself from Mill Hill to Elstree by being driven either by David Cunningham who was my assistant, or by John Rinders who was then was the Director of BIP and they were doing an enormous amount of scoring of th[…]
[…]ded to do that. And from the first I said, I would like to do research for programmes and of course, that sort of job didn't exist. And this is where David Attenborough in my leaving party said that I was probably the person who invented this step up for female staff between the typing pool and the […]
[…], kind of, extra parent in you and your mother?Tilly Day: Oh yes, he was a dear!Sidney Cole: What other directors... did you ever work with David Lean?Tilly Day: No, I knew him very well. I knew him as a cutter.Sidney Cole: But I know David has mentioned you in the past. I didn't[…]
