[…] there was a lovely magic moment because we had a head of Drama who hated Charles, hated Dickens and you won’t, wouldn’t […]
[…]rs came in, there were no offices for them because it was all so tiny, so there was a big car park and they were all put in caravans, and if ever the head of department or anybody wanted to see them I had to open my window and yell out, you know, [Laughter] to whoever was around, pass it down, you k[…]
[…]was in those days half a crown. And so consequently, you went up the road or you had a bar of chocolate or you took, went up the road of the road and head to the pub and had a half a pint of butter. And then if it worked or 12 o'clock, you had taxes home. Now taxes weren't load on. So I noticed thos[…]
[…]nt.Yes.And there was some very, very interesting people there at the time. Now V. C. Clinton-Baddeley who wrote and, mm God the name’s gone out of my head. The famous, oh, contemporary woman writer, Penelope... It will come to me, it will come to me later on was there.Mm, Lively?No, not Lively. No, […]
[…] I did two weeks for Michael Barry when he was head of drama because his secretary was on holiday, which was very […]
[…] Chief Accountant, who was a man called J.G.L. Francis I think.[10:24]And there was also a, they used a Chief Accountant and I think Lock..., Mr. Lockhead was the Controller of Finance. And I typed this dreaded thing, which was a double foolscap page thing, and we had these old Remington typewriters[…]
[…] arrival we then had joining us Pat Hillyard who was head of Light Entertainment in Radio and they brought him […]
[…]ent freelance in the mid seventies. Not entirely the best time to do it in fact! I ended up out of work for a bit! But eventually David Bell, who was Head of Entertainment here and whom I had met at Thames, phoned me one day and he said, "Look, I'm doing Entertainment at STV in Glasgow but they're e[…]
[…]en I got a letter back from the BBC asking me to come up for an interview at Broadcasting House. And dear old Peter Parrish, I think was there as the head programme engineer, or was it Dr. Alexander, one of them was in charge. John Ammonds 9:06 Well, yes ... Joh[…]