[…] the filming point of view probably, although I’ve won a number of awards in Milan and New York and the American festivals, the one that I probably remember most is being Runner-up for the Prix Italia in – think – 1978, that long ago, with a programme called ‘Test Tube Explosion’. At that time I’d b[…]
[…]ll in Newcastle. As I said I was born in ‘56 and one of the things that impacted on us as a family was my parents’ great love for light opera and I remember from a very early age the joy they took in singing and performing etcetera and being on stage so that sort of slight theatricality was there in[…]
[…]e socialist club. And later, as most people did, who were serious about this, it was that time with the student communist project. This was, if you remember, in 1938, and nine, full of Albania, the fall of episodio, being a little earlier, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the threat of a world wa[…]
[…]nd, um, was generally hawked around the Newsreel business as second man.Alan Lawson: Who was, if you like, your first mentor as a cameraman? Do you remember?David Prosser: Not offhand, because I went out with the whole lot, and I've got the list here of the crews. Normally I went out with what was t[…]
[…] years were you there?Paddy Carey  9:56  I think I was there for four years. And it gave me an interest in art which I, I had had before. Remember, when I was nine, a travelling salesman sold my mother. The Children's encyclopaedia, andI, my, my twin models are interesting, but I spent hou[…]
[…]If you're doing a, if you're doing a, if you're doing a 1415, week shoot, you're, you know, you with 50 people on a day to day basis, that's a lot of lifetimes. If you, if you look at that, that's, that's probably, you know, it's about 12 years of a lifetime. So you're going to have birth, deaths an[…]
[…]t worked wonderfully really and I adored my time at the Open University. I found it absolutely fascinating, valuable, everything. And they gave me an honorary degree.So you have an academic degree now, despite all you’ve been telling us. [laughter]The chap who – Arnold Kettle, the Professor of Liter[…]
[…]'s job where you had to have a think about exactly how you were going to cable things or where that mic clipped on. It was doing things as the junior member of a team that the other members of the team then relied on you to do, mostly so they could go to the pub and come in five minutes before on ai[…]
[…]han, than you expect. I remember thinking after 1979, and particularly when labour didn't win in 1992, would ever see a Labour government again in my lifetime, then, of course, we have 1997. Again, I was starting to feel that way. Recently, but I think the result in the last election gives us all a […]
