[…] it wasn't very good! But that was one of the things I didn't like. But I actually did The Tower, which was another one, with Liam Hood as one of the Executives at STV and he was Producer of that and that was very good, it was all about a television station a way out in the country but that was very[…]
[…]ackle maybe more topical subjects, you know. And High Road maybe being a rural soap didn't entirely fit the bill. I: And did the change of Chief Executives/Managing Directors make any difference to the, did the change, well, the change to Gus Macdonald and the other Managing Directors make any […]
[…]rtainly very funny, there was a lovely moment at the TV Festival around that time and there was a bloke whose name I've forgotten, who had been Chief Executive of ICI at some time and I think he was the first man to go on TV and tell you how to run a successful company and they brought him in to spe[…]
[…]ancied doing! And when I was Press Officer for the Liberal Democrats I, at that point, came into contact with Newspaper Editors, senior Producers and Executives in television and at that point I thought, 'Yeah, working in television, that's really what I am meant to do!' I found it, in a sense. […]
[…]s in between times but I started acting on a regular basis and in ’84, ‘85 I think, and I'd been strand editor on on “Timewatch” and “Bookmark” under Executive Producer Tim Gardam.And I got made up to editor I think in ‘85 and one of the films that came out of the “Timewatch” assignment was a great […]
[…] is very clearly defined, we knew exactly what we were doing. Mm, Roger on the other hand, mm, seemed to regard us as an adjunct to the NEC, the, the Executive Committee and, mm, to do things rigorously by his book. Well, his book was not our book. It wasn’t mine. What, what specifically […]
[…]p; I think they came to the second or third meeting.SUE MALDEN: And then they went on growing. And so, the structure of FIAT, they had an Executive Board, and a President and a General Secretary. When did they put that kind of structure in place?ANNE HANFORD: Well, fairly qui[…]
[…]problematic atall; they were over… There were too many people at the top. You always have, (like I thinkyou feel we are now in Britain) you know with executives and lawyers and they always didthat. But on the whole they just went along with what we did.SRYou got involved with the Grierson Trust, whi[…]
[…] be disposed of; the lab they had at Pinewood was the ideal size for what they needed; new negative machines were purchased for the move; BD took the executive decision to move to Pinewood to save the business; BD decided to retire on the day they moved to Pinewood as he didn’t feel he knew enough a[…]
[…]the phone down and said “OK well you finish today, unless you go down and behave yourself”, and she came down - no problem - and that’s what an executive producer should do- isn’t it lovely but I think Humming Bates had nothing to do with it (laughs)Q: Then - um what I’ve got01:55:25JOE: […]
