[…]ker 1 0:00 History Project, Bruce Anderson, my predecessor in the job, Bruce, tell us, first of all, how you came into the business, your general background, where you were born, and when and where, your education and so on, and your career so far in the industry. ISpeaker 2 0:19 &[…]
[…] And I've usually managed to convince them that it was OK talking to me because my terms of reference, my personal terms of reference, have always or generally appealed to them. I've had hellish arguments in the fronts of shop fronts while doing industrial films in one city or another but it is gene[…]
[…]sp;Early 50s. 1950 I arrived at the BBC. 1950. Television was derided in those days. Sir William Haley was still the Director-General and thought nothing of television, it was something up the road at Alexandra Palace, I mean, it was remote…and it was remote, I mean, the jour[…]
[…]sp; Okay. The copyright of this recording is vested in the British Entertainment History Project. The name of the interview is GM:, and he's the General Secretary of BECTU. He was the General Secretary BECTU, and is now the joint general secretary. Gerry Morrissey:No. I'm the head of BECTU[…]
[…] the most efficient (and the most economical) performance of this complex operation that he had ever witnessed. Graham had successfully applied for a general dogsbody gopher role at this Festival and we both had a great time especially as we were both invited to participate on the selection screenin[…]
[…] happily. And I think from then on she was told to vet my bit of writing, the script. But that was great fun, I enjoyed that job enormously.What generally was the atmosphere of the BBC at that point?DS: I thought very good. It was still very strict, you had to behave, you had to know your place[…]
[…] encourage the silly sod to jump out of an aeroplane at this stage of life. But he was in the army and my father in law from my second marriage was a general, he was in charge of xxx before Horrocks. So I'm only introducing this, it is rambling a bit, but the interesting thing about the armythat tha[…]
[…] EN T ERTAINMENT HISTORY PROJECT AS AMENDED AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET ING HELD ON 9 th MAY 2018 ct […]
[…]Kenneth Clark, come and...’ He was totally bewildered because I was very young and I also looked much younger than my age and dressed badly and was a general sort of, you know, nice provincial girl. And he then talked to me for a bit and discovered I knew nothing about anything and he thought, I don[…]
[…] younger than my age and dressed badly and was a general sort of, you know, nice provincial girl. And he […]
