[…]ld, they went on to win BAFTAs and things like that which was fantastic! So, it was, I mean I find it hard to think that anybody lived through a more golden era of opportunity and having, yeah, the privilege to make those kind of programmes to the quality that we did under quite difficult circumstan[…]
[…]n the Director of Programmes at STV and then I took on a, I think it was a kind of, it was like going to the House of Lords. I became the Director of International Development, right, which I think was just a nice way of putting me out to grass and I spent a lot of time not here. I spent a lot of ti[…]
[…]e objective must be to make the stuff available, what’s the point of doing it unless we, we, we make it available? We can’t have it like some sort of golden rabbit that’s buried somewhere and you have to kind of go on a treasure trail to find them, you know what I mean.Okay. My, this is my second qu[…]
[…]BC about it. It came through a Conference proposition. And I think it was people like the Brian Macks of this world who were very involved in kind of international politics. RL: Anti-apartheid. GM: Yes, anti-apartheid, and I mean other stuff as well. Anti-apartheid politics. And that, that[…]
[…]I’d been taken on full time, which was very lucky; it was incredible. I’ve always thought about the BBC, at that stage, they were – it was absolutely golden years in terms of film making and the people who worked for it. It was just terrific. The variety of work it was fabulous. Documentaries, drama[…]
[…]ked in Jene [corrects himself] Jaeger. In Regent Street as a shop window dresser. And she went from there into doing the Ideal Homes sort of thing in Moscow, and Frankfurt, for an independent called Eric Horne[?]. And then eventually, twenty years ago, she went to a yoga class and I’m afraid she nev[…]
[…]ascinating because mooncakes originally, were the way in which communication happened in the Chinese villages, when there was to be the first ever peasant uprising in China. And the mooncake contained the whole yolk of a duck egg. When people receive their mooncakes, this was going back however many[…]
