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[…]bit of that. But it was…he was excellent, Ted, and, I mean, compared to Bob Danvers-Walker who was the other voice I knew, I mean, Ted was way ahead of that because he knew how to read it, he knew where to make the pauses, and he was exceptionally good, very…a very nice man. Philip was g[…]
[…] Sydney Newman, Fellow of the Royal Television Society, Executive Producer, Head of Drama Departments of BBC, ABC and also controller of Canadian […]
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[…]Sector nowadays?Philip Donnellan: [LAUGHTER] Yes that's right.Colin Moffat: Can you say a bit about that?Philip Donnellan: Yes. My father was a head teacher, he got a head teachership in a little village school at a village, at a place called Merrow just outside Guildford where we lived from 1[…]
[…]r father was Irish.Jimmy Gilbert: yes Huguenots, they came originally from Lyons, in France, they escaped to Ireland and his father was the Methodist head master so he was a Protestant teacher in a predominantly Catholic area in the west of Ireland.John Taylor: Where about, do you know.Jimmy Gilbert[…]
[…] fee income which, without increasing the level of the fee, would provide a far bigger film hire budget to secure better product. Selling the idea to headmasters did not prove to be as big a hurdle as feared as the core concept of this ESFS would enable the various schools’ facilities to be used for[…]
[…] know, it was the time of the great explosion - BBC2, Schools, commercial television, all that was happening or about to happen. NS Well we are ahead of BBC2 by a decade, aren’t we? JG Am I, much too ahead, anyway, whatever, maybe it was a thought in their heads anyway, well you were there[…]
[…] always this sort of sword of Damocles hanging over your head. But it didn't worry us, I mean it was […]
[…]could take the output of this, if this was a television camera, you could feed the output of this straight home." I was a long way, a long, long way ahead. Because that year - this was 1936, at the end of that year, the high definition service was started at Alexandra Palace and people were already […]
