[…]e have excellent shop stewards, we have excellent committees in all the laboratories. And we have a very keen laboratory Committee, which advises the executive and the general counsel of the Union. What do you think are going to be the next steps will get the 40 hour week? What do you think are goin[…]
[…]ting father's food in, getting the shopping before he comes home from work, will he be in work next week. That was there problems. I thought every tv executive should have to ride on that train at least twice a month just to keep abreast of what is going on in the country. But it's true, you could s[…]
[…]ed in the thing, but no-one … anyway I remember there was a Late Night Line-Up afterwards, in which Joe Slovo, who was her husband, and is now on the executive of the ANC - very high-powered guy - and was a Communist, was tremendous, cause he faced this Soref and everything else in the studio and he[…]
[…]the bikes got to be. And the land caravan said, that's where the lights got to be, which is a stupid sort of situation. So they have to call down the executive producer and the studio manager. And eventually somebody gives way, but that's how it used to be once upon a time. And then of course, then […]
[…]e have excellent shop stewards, we have excellent committees in all the laboratories. And we have a very keen laboratory Committee, which advises the executive and the general counsel of the Union. What do you think are going to be the next steps will get the 40 hour week? What do you think are goin[…]
Interviewed by Peter Musgrave at the home of John Aldred in Marbella on the Costa Del Sol Copyright ACTT 1989SIDE 1, TAPE 1Peter Musgrave: Where and when were you born?John Aldred: I was born at Doncaster in 1921, son of dental surgeon but I had no ambition about following in my father's chosen prof[…]
[…]hip, the of the general came about very simply after the war was over, but whilst before I'd been de mobbed, George Erwin wrote to me to say that the executive had decided that they got to have a paid editor part time, and if I'd be interested, they wouldn't advertise the job until I came back. So I[…]
[…]p;we were. FL: We had two managing directors, Kay Harrison who was the entrepreneur, he had been the chairman and chief executive or managing director of Gerard Industries who were a major shareholder in Technicolor, with the Prudentia[…]
[…] well known, the Way all directors and associate producers, the associate producer being the creative producer as opposed to Micky Balcon who was the executive, so all the asociate producers, directors used to read each other's scripts, criticise them, see each other's rushes, each other's rough cut[…]
