[…] invited you... Lew Grade : So Val became the managing director, Val Parnell that is, I became the deputy managing […]
[…] it." And he got in touch with me again afterwards and it was all very clandestine and I had to go to London to meet Bill Brown, who was the Managing Director, and it all took place in the Company flat in South Kensington because all the ITV companies had flats in London at that time because the Dir[…]
[…]sp;Glyn Jones 0:00The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. The name of the interviewee is Derek Williams, Writer Director. The interviewer is Glyn Jones. The date is the first of May 2002. And this is side one. Have you had an extensive career in the particu[…]
[…]verything else passed in English failed at maths, you know, kind of thing eventually got enough to get through and decided that I wanted to be a film director Believe it or not. And I was living living Kingston at the time and I decided to run away runaway which I did by getting over 65 bus ok[…]
[…] he just loved telling stories and he’d been a good director himself I believe. I hadn’t, mm… Now was this […]
[…] on [laughter] and there was a very, very shrewd managing director, who said, ‘Yes, I think you’re just the person […]
[…] didn't he? Poor chap. Saville was a rather a fiery director. Yes he could say things like that. Didn't mean […]
[…]studio – “It was a very interesting way to be trained by the BBC”. Told to watch a live transmission one week, and do it the next. I was a Trainee as Director – credited as Director. 26.49 - &n[…]
[…]ught was one of the most, oh, best man of drama I’ve ever met, he was saddled really with a staff of producers, they were called then, we’d call them directors now, who were all on the staff [Laughter] and so he could never bring in new people, newer people. And all this had to change and so when, a[…]