[…]o the General Council, in the really early days, as a Council member - what other positions have you held within ACT?Kay Mander: Well, when we had an Executive. There was one point when we divided off the Executive Committee, didn't we? Originally, and I was on the Executive Committee as well. That […]
British Entertainm ent History Project Interview no. 709 - Michael Darlow - Transcript 0:00 Born Wolverhampton 1934. Father Deputy Town […]
[…] had been working on a show, Bill Cotton was the executive producer, Michael Hoe [ph 2A 36:00] was the stage […]
[…], you start off working in television because you want to produce programmes or direct programmes or whatever it is you want to do and you end up the Executive Producer, you know, commissioning rather than actually producing. But I still used to keep my hand in with various things and that was one o[…]
[…]sly when it came up on the board and got the full time television producer job and then I got the memo from the Bob Hutson who was the North Regional Executive I think he was called to say they would be pleased to tell me I'd got the job but there wasn't a dicky bird about anything in the way of LSD[…]
[…]s nobody else and it was pointless to send for somebody else so I did them. And I did a Royal Variety Performance, but I never produced once I was an executive because I don't believe in it. I think that the business about it's nice to be in touch with what's going on is far outweighed by the fact t[…]
[…]a touch for that sort of thing I thought. And as a matter of fact, when the film was over everybody gave John Howard Davies - who is now of course an executive and not quite the same size - aday out. And I have seen him once, I've seen him once since. I was doing a film at Twickenham and he was play[…]
[…]L: Is it active now?DA: Yes, it still is.GS: You’re still involved?DA: Yes I'm on the United Nations committee. At one time I was the chairman of the executive, and that was when we had our conference in Perth Australia and I had to go and I had all 16expenses paid which was rather nice. But I […]
