[…]tely golden years in terms of film making and the people who worked for it. It was just terrific. The variety of work it was fabulous. Documentaries, drama, schools, the whole package it was brilliant. And you were expected to work on all that variety of work, which at times was very frustrating, be[…]
[…] other interviews. If you want to help, please contact BEHP Secretary, sue.malden@btinternet.com.Speaker 1 0:08 The English regents drama consists was based in Birmingham at Pebble mill. And it consisted, at first just a one producer. And as it expanded, there were two or three pro[…]
[…] I see. Lois Singer 2:54 And I wanted very badly to train at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, which had a wonderful drama school. And I kept taking the audition. And I kept failing the audition. But one of the things I was able to do was to join something called the[…]
[…]entish Times in Erith, and I ran the local office...well very soon ran the local office down there. But I did all sorts of stuff, flower shows, drama reviews, concerts, everything that a local journalist does.I: Except sport, maybe?R: Except sport. Abs[…]
[…]hey eventually did it you went further. What was yourRudi Cartier: I am coming to answer this. Michael Barry asked me what are your criticisms on BBC drama production. I said everything from the script to the technical fulfilment, one has to invent a new style. It isn't theatre, it isn't cinema, it […]
[…] work on? R: Well, there was Scotland Today Report and features for the News programme 'cause they didn't really shoot any big events on film or Drama on film at that time. All the Drama was mostly in studio so I was there for a time and the Editors were, you know, a great bunch of chaps but a […]
[…]ection that the school play the next year was St. Joan. And the person who directed it cast Peters as Joan. So he went up a few notches in the school drama sequence of events. Anyway, that was my introduction to theatre and directing. And when I got to Cambridge, which was a year later, I joined the[…]
[…]s much as anything else. Working with David Attenborough, of course, was great. He was a superb man, as was Gerald Durrell, but, and then some of the drama directors like David Rose and ... Oh, can you stop a minute? I've got to try and think ... Hill.Interviewer 14:46 Can you say that a[…]