7 hours 45 minutesJohn CotterThis is an interview with John Cotter recorded by Rodney Giesler on 5 July 1997 in ChargeSomerset. Copyright in this recording is vested in the Becta World History Project.C) John can you tell me a bit about when you were born and about your family background?A Yes, cert[…]
[…]ey's territory wasn't it?Roy Fowler: Yes, yes [laughs].E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, certainly no. Ben Goetz was the highest I ever got to an MGM executive you know.Roy Fowler: Okay. And that was what, your last picture before the war?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well no I went back with George[…]
[…]bsp;The copyright of this recording is vested in the Bectu History Project, Bill Ward, television technician since 1936 director, producer, programme executive, interviewer, Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson recorded on the 21st of January, 1997 side one, Alan Lawson 0:33 &n[…]
[…]e thing was that, that you must know something about, because that, Bentley was going to get the studio, and Sidney Box was going to be brought in as executive producer, it was, everybody thought well he always shuts studios down. And...Well...When the battles started.Yes.What, what was, well I thin[…]
[…]by the name of Ozzie Cochrane. And he was the...to take over the position as British Air.... BOAC ... in Tokyo. So course we sat up and, him being an executive for the air-line, we were well dined and all that, so we made very good friends. I stayed at the hotel and Ozzie, he stayed at the Imperial.[…]
[…] If you’re a producer there’s a lot of boring legwork that you have to do.SF: But if Sally, with due respect, if Sally Hibbin can be Ken Loach’s executive producer,you can, standing on your head.No, I agree, I agree.Sheila Whitaker Page 41SF: I mean I’m not selling Sally short, she was my&[…]
[…]f dropped out of it but has got a credit.41:00 So, about 3 years ago it ended up with Music and Arts department and Nick Rossiter was appointed to be executive producer of it. Nick Rossiter was a… had come in as a history graduate, on the general trainee’s scheme and had worked in News, Curren[…]
[…]doing it. And you've done a couple of series so you can probably get the money together. And I'll get help you to get the money if you if you are the executive producer and do it. So I then met Nigel Hulton, who had in fact got a contact through into China. And we went off Stephen Canes, Nigel Helto[…]
