[…]'t say anything for himself sadly. I: We have Nancy coming. R: Oh great! That's wonderful! That's great! It was the same year that Bill was awarded a gold medal by the RTS so that was super. And, after that, I was allowed to make more documentaries and that was really fun. I did a film abo[…]
[…]e creative challenge of news-gathering isn't big and I've had some colleagues over the years who are, in fact one particular colleague who is an Emmy award winner and is a photographer now, hated news with a passion because he could not be creative on it, you know - I hope you are listening, Mitchel[…]
[…]up. I remember once, myself and Neill McLarren and Alison Macdonald who was just a new Sound Recordist, a new Journalist, we were setting out to Powell Mill at the east end of Glasgow and I like to think that I'm kind of aware of backgrounds and danger. You just don't know. You think you are bu[…]
[…]s soon as he came in the door was clearly very talented, very able, very enthusiastic but capable. He delivered on what he promised, won a Journalism award and we didn't offer him, we should have said, "Right, tie this lad down!" and we didn't and we lost him and he went to ITV. So, I think you need[…]
[…]... quite a lot of stuff we couldn't film, actually. Sometimes really funny, but quite surreal, you know. So James, said "Doyou want to meet Jonathan Powell?" And I went, yeah, I thought, well, he, he knows about this. And he was really helpful. And took, took it very seriously. And he said, basical[…]
[…]Island Discs. I've appeared was salty. I think I've achieved all my ambitions I think all the iconic showsDerek Threadgall 55:09 you were awarded the OBE for services to entertainment.Unknown Speaker 55:17 Yes, I accepted it because I found out how it works. You're recommende[…]
[…]at would have been my subject for postgraduate work at Oxford: “I got round to it eventually”. Really good programmes, wonderful interview with Enoch Powell, in which he said that when Macmillan resigned, RAB Butler should have become PM but “He had the pistol in his hand but he couldn’t squeeze the[…]
[…] famous for his lovely interviewing techniqueand his talking to children was famous and I did ‘Gale is Dead’ and. ‘Women in Prison’ withhim which won awards. He is wonderful at talking to people. But, very often to be absolutelyfrank I thought I would have been better at doing the interviewing than […]
[…]id, Oh, I put you a quarter of an hour a day on your timesheet in the morning. I was fine time and a half. Not only that, but that week the Union had awarded attention or had negotiated attention links week rise. So my first pay packet in spite of not being seven pounds, which I thought it was going[…]
[…]; certainly Bogart, with the teeth like that. Muni was a serious stage actor but his seriousness he applied to films very well. Great people. William Powell and Ronald Colman, the Englishman with the velvet voice - I didn’t think he was the greatest actor in the world but [he] was very successful. H[…]
