[…]uts to say no, because I should have made much more of my own way before going there but I'd been tatting around with ENSA, I'd done very well at the drama school so I had got a sort of beginnings of a career, but it was awkward. Roy Fowler 30:57 What, which was the pictur[…]
[…]larly wanted to - I mean they would have treated him very well but I don't think he wanted to doff his cap to Jonathan Powell who was the new head of drama. And so Ted agreed on a very lucrative consultancy. And they said to me, "You'll also be going" - fine. But then they did come in and say, "Well[…]
[…]hat happened, I went to the University of Warwick when I was thirty-nine.SF: Was Clive Barker there in charge of media studies?No, it was Robin...SF: Drama?No. Oh, I don’t know about drama. I did a joint Italian and English studies and Robin Wood was there doing film, but I mean I didn’t do fil[…]
[…]tes so much, and you find so much perspective about the past. You don't just take what you're given. You don't take what's thrust down your throat at drama school, and you don't let directors who are on the wrong track tell you what to do if you've got a mind of your own. Doesn't make you very popul[…]
[…]e end the Daily Sketch sent me to Cheltenham where I got on the local paper, the Gloucestershire Echo. And I progressed I became, in the end I became drama critic there. I made a sort of name for myself as a drama critic there actually, in the end became news editor of the paper, and stayed there fo[…]
[…]full scale full blown documentaries where the BBC was in the habit of producing and I don't know if there's any such animal now, though one worked on drama, it tend to be just an adjunct to studio but you did get insert. JOhn Elliott used to do dramatised documentaries taking open subject of opencas[…]
[…] of being able to tell them that I had in fact shot it. Anyway, after that, I went to the Australian Broadcasting commission where I worked mostly on drama, as I did do a considerable amount of documentary for them as well. Then after that, I took a temporary contract with the Australian Government […]
[…] But this programme, didn't it? I think television is very powerful. On the docu mentary news item. I don't think it's particularly powerful on drama, except for those who, you know, in the memory state . And we did show intcontaneusly? in about four countries at the same time, that evening, w[…]
