[…] Fellow of the Royal Television Society, Executive Producer, Head of Drama Departments of BBC, ABC and also controller of Canadian […]
[…]oodness knows what, pantos we saw. But I became more enchanted with theatre because Joan, my eldest sister, became involved with the Coventry amateur dramatics, the Coventry Operatic Society, and they had shows at the Coventry Hippodrome and she had leading parts; she was very pretty and very talent[…]
[…] was now going slightly out of the documentary area, cause it meant a reconstruction, and the internal divisions in the BBC were very strict. I mean, Drama hated the idea of documentaries using actors, I think Peter Watkins has made his Culloden round about this time from the documentary unit, I thi[…]
[…] Language and then when I graduated from Glasgow in '57 I got a scholarship to an American university because I'd wanted to study, you couldn't study Drama in those days at Glasgow University. You can now, of course but in those days you couldn't and so, I wanted to do Drama and I got a scholarship […]
[…]ghtened, because I didn’t know, I didn’t know what I was doing, I was doing what I thought was right, you know.What kind of programmes did he produce?Drama.Malcolm Baker-Smith, drama?Plays, yes.Sheelagh Reece DRAFT. Tape 1 Side A7Sheelagh Reece DRAFT. Tape 1 Side APlays, yes.I remember one, he was, […]
[…] right, you know. What kind of programmes did he produce? Drama. Malcolm Baker-Smith, drama? Plays, yes. Sheelagh Reece DRAFT. Tape […]
[…] [Laughter] you know, or had to for years particularly in Drama Department. Yes. Because there was a very small section […]
[…]ell, I don’t know what you did and how you came to be here’, and I nearly fell off my chair because he’d been a playwright and he was Max Reinhardt’s dramaturg in Vienna, so I really did rub shoulders with some amazing people. And they were all very good to me because I was quite ignorant. And, mm, […]