[…]t ignored by young man who was snobbish and you're made to do anything. With the exception of the late Jack Chambers. You were assigned, he needed an assistant. And I used to do things like pushing an arrow to train?. But the unusual thing about me was that he took me as a human being. And he went o[…]
[…]individual holding, in factSpeaker 2 28:00 the rules of the Union provide that it's the General Secretary that shall call meetings of the executive committee, or in an emergency, the Deputy General Secretary, there is no provision for the President to call a meeting of the executive inSp[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]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 […]
[…]ts presumably. [Topical story?][laughter]VG: I don't think that creatively, I might be maligning a poor dead man, but I never found him creatively an executive producer who was creative.RF: It was by rote and by predjudice…?VG: Simply that he had been a showman and he was still a showman and his who[…]
[…]parallelwith you doing it here and we're now, sending over, we always had beensending a second print of rushes which I thought was just for the studioexecutives to see the rushes. Now I find that they're going to be cut.So I struggled with cutting and editing, with no help from the director,no guida[…]
[…]had to rush in for a pee at the old house- 15 minutes PM: - The first place I knew that I had seen a toilet and I rushed in – which was the Executive pee room, I’m standing having a pee and Alex comes in. Stands next to me, says “Good Morning” and walks out. And I lived in fear for weeks w[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]assador and I transferred to the Head of Chancery, the First Secretary, who was sent to Italy, to Bari, to try and deal with SOE – Special Operations Executive – who were a bit out of hand and giving gold to all the wrong people, like the communists in Greece and the communists in Yugoslavia and eve[…]
[…]were co-director sometimes you were producer, Norman Swallow: Yes, I was the producer of the series, I think the phrase executive director was never used then. I think the Special Enquiry said produced by me at the end. Sometimes if I directed i[…]
