[…]rtisement in the local paper saying want is somebody interested in wireless so I wrote so off. And to my amazement I got her letter back with the BBC heading and it was the BBC at that time were erecting low power transmitters all over the country which in the event of any craft coming over labour t[…]
[…]d never really met him. And then he, he, I must have applied for a job, or I rang up, or he rang me I think, I think I was, one time in my life I was headhunted. And he said, ‘Come in and meet me,’ and I did, and he was running Bandung File with Darcus Howe. And, he, he said, ‘I’ve seen The Battle F[…]
[…]y happy period. I was free, I wanted to be free.Interviewer (unidentified): What did the ARP work involve?Jill Craigie: Well, we used to go to battle headquarters, as we grandly called it, and we had so many hours on duty, and you had to know the names of all the roads so that if you were called to […]
[…]ertain amount of capital. Hannah Weinstein came to me with an idea of making 39 half-hours of a series called 'Robin Hood'. I said "ok". And we went ahead and we sold it in America; that was my first sale in America. And we made a hundred and sixty-three episodes or something.Alan Sapper : Did you r[…]
[…]ome October 56 I was recalled for the serious crisis and I joined to Corps headquarters which was based under the War Office and then we went there again a[…]
[…] ordinary people rather than experts. Jenny rose to become BBC1 Head of Documentaries, but she chose programme-making over further corporate […]
[…]odak. And the rest as they say is history.CR: So that’s where the early interest in the chemical side of film processing came from?AM: Yes. And I was heading for a chemistry degree at [Edinburgh] university. So I liked chemicals from an early age [laughs]CR: And thinking about when you completed you[…]
[…]bably the most formidable, Jeremy Spenser, he was always getting the best parts. But that’s how that part of my career began. DB: Then, jumping ahead a bit you went into rep [repertory theatre] in about 1961 I think it was? GG: Well, yes I did. Really what happened was, working at the BBC,[…]
[…]nbsp;This is just an ID for for that for the for the interview. Okay. Okay. Today is the fifth of September. We are in progress house to us in London headquarters. We will be interviewing Stephen Cavalier, Chief Executive of Thomson solicitors. The solicitors to back to the interview will be conduct[…]
[…]ith Bill Cotton Junior, as he was then, we were the two youngest producers in the BBC. Because he was a song plugger before he became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment.DARROL BLAKE: What was your first production?NEVILLE WORTMAN: My first production was a thing called “Like Jaz[…]
