Mickey Hickey

[…] for a job at Sainsbury's at Blackfriars, which was the head office I think of Sainsbury's in those days, well […]

Reg Sutton

[…] at Newcastle, a producer called Cecil McGibbon who eventually became head of television for a time until he died in […]

Peter Graham Scott

[…]m”. How this poet should know that, I don’t know, but he did. He phoned up Basil Wright, who was a leading documentary maker, and Basil phoned up the head of Strand Films, who said “come along and see me”. I must have a drink..Interviewer – Where were they based?Peter – The Strand were based at Mert[…]

Liz Forgan

[…] awful stuff, never watched it, don’t care about it, don’t know anything about it’. ‘Perfect’, he said, ‘just the very person’. So I became Head of Factual Programmes, News and Current Affairs and Documentaries at Channel 4 and then later Director of Programmes.Tell us a bit about the star[…]

Esther Harris

[…]rooms, our own negative cutting rooms, our own editing rooms, we had the whole set up. Our own laboratory, and this was how we got the things out in ahead of the picture.Y es.Otherwise it was impossible. But of course, it was, this was just the British offshoot. I mean in the, the American side had […]

Vivienne Collins

[…]ing things so I would rather sit quietlyinstead of explaining that I didn’t, that I didn’t understand. So I think I a bit fell by thewayside. And the head actually, I remember the head calling my parents up becauseshe very much thought I was university material but my parents... Well first of a[…]

Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]s. I felt such an idiot because I was only very small anyway! [Chuckles] They had me earmarked for a job at Sainsbury's at Blackfriars, which was the head office I think of Sainsbury's in those days, well it definitely was in those days - whether it is today or not, I'm not sure, I think it is. So a[…]
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