[…]he first time I was introduced to telly was 1953 - nine years old, next door neighbour who had their own little baker's business, they bought a telly for the only event that happened that year, the Coronation. So, everybody was in their home and I was sitting on the floor watching this all unfolding[…]
[…]Start of Recording] [00:20] I2: I think I am ready. R: Right. OK. I2: That's fine. I think we are there. I: Right! Totally informal. Relaxed. Adam Fullarton, when did you start with STV? R: I think I started in 1962. I: Right. This interviewer, John Frame, and, fir[…]
[…] of something that STV had done many, many, many years before but we managed to get together enough money to make six half-hours and it's won lots of awards. It was amazing! Because I'm not from a Drama background, I had very limited input to it but I definitely made it happen from working with the […]
[…]hout the 70s, the department expanded until I can remember in 1978, I think it was about then, and I just begun Empire road. David hare won the BAFTA Award for licking Hitler. Gangsters was our series. Alan Bleasdale had just done the first black stuff, film. And this all went out in one sees. So I […]
[…]think three plays for the BBC. Ronald McWhinnie was the Director- DB: -Donald McWhinnie. PB-C: Donald McWhinnie, that’s right, and Tristram Powell was the Producer, and the one that I shot was called But the Clouds [Part of Shades: Three Plays by Samuel Beckett, in the Lively Arts strand. […]
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[…]GLYNNE: Yes, but the promise that he made he didn’t keep becauseTom White, who was the umbrella of independent producers, who had David Lean, Michael Powell and Gaby, and Launder and Gilliat (TIME 16.02) ... all puppeteering, I mean, that’s unkind but it’s a joke word ... and he put M[…]
[…]probably know, his brother, Anatole de Grunwald was quite a well-established screenwriter and producer at that time and he made several ... He made anaward-winning film called The Way to the Stars in 1940 something ... [TIME00.13.08] I can’t quite remember. And actually to show y[…]
[…]school in Fleet Street called Broad Court which was next to Doctor Johnson’s house. And I think I was very good there. I won the National Award for Illustration at one point so I had a natural kind of bent towards cartooning really and that’s really where it developed.DARROL BLAKE: […]
