[…] thirteen years ago, Mike Custer [ph 31:41] was arts features editor. SF: Yes, indeed he was. And he walked in, […]
[…]sn't at all - brought up in Devon mainly with parents who hadn'tbeen to university. So I think Oxford did it and there was a girl I knew who knew the editorof the I.T.N. news. And she said to him ‘Well I think this Jenny Izard would be to be OK as awoman reporter’. And so he said ‘well what's she li[…]
[…]t of them still around?Oh yes. When I finally went to Channel Four, this is quite funny, thirteen years ago, Mike Custer [ph 31:41] was arts features editor.SF: Yes, indeed he was.And he walked in, he walked past, I’d not met him. He walked past and, Naomi Sergeant, kind of paused him and said ‘Oh M[…]
[…]de : About four or five times a year. I'll probably go about September 3rd or 4th.Alan Sapper : And how are you getting on with the European Economic Community? Is that meaning anything different to the way you finance things? Do you get any resources from them?Lew Grade : No. I don't go to them for[…]
[…]ell, I hadn't thought of that. And I had no idea how I got into the BBC. But it turned out that there was an advertisement for trainee assistant film editors. SoUnknown Speaker 5:00 I thought well, nothing ventured, nothing gained. And I logged in an application, not thinking for one mom[…]
[…]utters and film cutters as David Lean will tell you, David Lean, anybody, cutting, editing in other words is the basis of what films are made of. The editors can make them or break them.McG: Did you know Ealing before you made Went the Day Well?HF: No, no.McG: Did it have a reputation?HF: Oh yes. I […]
[…] they were all the Astor home movies going back to the 1920s!All people like MacMillan at Cliveden…. the children, I mean, David Astor who became the editor of the Observer; Bill Astor whom there was a bit of a scandal about at Cliveden. I think Jake Astor. Anyway, they were all there as children. A[…]