[…]I came home. When I left school in the summer term the end of the summer term of 1940 when I was 16 I came home and my father had talked to the Chief Editor or whatever he was called Managing Editor of the Surrey Times Group, the Surrey Advertiser Group in Guildford and they had agreed to take me on[…]
[…]at in olden days might have been referred to as “the bird”. The chief instigator was invariably Phil Penfold (The Newcastle Chronicle’s Entertainment editor) egged on by Keith Dufton (of The Sunday Sun) with Metro Radio DJ’s Paddy McDee, Steve Coleman and Dave Porter joining in with their own verbal[…]
[…]es who don't know how to do the other side. Because it is easy to do news and current affairs, very easy to do it, you just keep booking people to be editors. Reporting news is just what it says it is, isn't it, you go out and you find out and you take whatever the news is. And it depends what, if t[…]
[…] that he had been an actor, which he had been, of course in Zed cars. But he had been working with Ken Loach and so on. And, and he was in as a story editor. And there was there was a very good play, written by John Hopkins, which was about a very rich time, good play. And it was about South Africa […]
[…]d that this seemed at the time to be my metier was editing. I loved it totally enjoyed it. And we had a good team of people. There, a number of other editors I worked alongside one of them I remember well, and with affection was man called Derek Hyde chambers. And Derek became quite a well known edi[…]
[…]t I remember the Second World War; I was, I think aged 7 when it broke out. My father at that time was working in South Wales, and he was a newspaper editor, well he wasn’t at that time but he was working in newspapers. And we were bombed – not our house, but we were blitzed in Cardiff, and my fathe[…]
[…]:14]I: That must have been quite a difference for you though to come up from Granada? In a sense you were more like cast in the role of Commissioning Editor than Producer - would that be fair to say? R: Oh absolutely. That is one of the erroneous things about television I've always thought. The[…]
[…] Robson 0:08 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. The subject is Michael Clark, producer, director and editor of documentary films interviewed by john legard. The date is 22, October 1993. This is side one. And the file number is 299.John Legard &[…]
[…] cameraman from London, he'd worked on loss of the summer wine and a lot of these big programmes, and he was in there, especially hay, who had been a editor on local, middle and state. And so he was another one. And there was Christian Gold, who was Bush House, and he was there as a producer, and th[…]
[…]nbsp;24:34 It worked because it was Johnny Fielder, who was the leading chap in that field at the time, and everybody wanted him as their editor.Joyce Robinson 24:42 I'll bet they did.Lois Singer 24:42 Anyway, we went back and finished this play off and Tan[…]
