Bernard Ponsonby

[…]Political Correspondent at that time and her father was the aforementioned Willie Ross, Labour Secretary of State for Scotland. Gus Macdonald who was Director of Programmes subsequently left the Company in 1998 to become an industry minister in the Labour Government after Labour's election victory i[…]

Hazel Allen

[…] Speaker  29:10  That was a very funny story on that one in Bangor, Maine. People were just as you saying I mean was dg for the general DVM director variety and they suddenly fell everybody was giving themselves initials, whether deserved or otherwise. So they sent the director around sayi[…]

Erica Masters

[…]stance - all right, the man is dead and one shouldn't speak ill of them - but I remember Paul Rotha had some very outstanding and very talented young directors and writers working for him, and they'd have a script and he'd say, "You've spelt that wrong! You didn't make a comma there" and so on. Whic[…]

Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…]appened and she said, "They're not going to lend you the money." It was about forty thousand or something we wanted, and at that moment the assistant director on the film we were making at that moment popped his head round the door and said, "There's trouble on the floor, will you come down and paci[…]

Martin Gibbons

[…]ch the episode, and you know it's going wrong. But you can still enjoy it and the comedy is great. But for the people, the stars of the show, and the director, it must have been a nightmare. So Tony finally persuades the BBC that they can that they should start to record is worth mentioning, of cour[…]

Evangeline Harrison

[…] the end of film party, Jocelyn Rickards was there and I’d heard about Jocelyn and I thought she sounded wonderful, and I had for a bit worked as Art Director on Morgan as my husband’s father died in America and he went off for a month. Nobody seemed to even notice me so I just carried on! I’d spott[…]

Peter Montagnon

[…]Norman Swallow  0:04  the copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Peter Montagnon  television producer and director of television films, interviewer, Norman Swallow, recorded on the 31st of October 1995. Side onePeter Montagnon  0:35  engineers al[…]

Hugh Stewart

[…]l set to jazz music! [Laughs] All said with a dead straight face, so I liked him very much! And he said to me, "There's a film being made by a German director called Wilhelm Tiele who directed some films in Germany...this was the time when Gaumont British and UFA were getting together. And we were, […]
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