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[…] been received about swear-words on the latest Man Alive. The head of BBC 2 asked to see the programme. In […]

[…]ly part of the week. You worked Tuesday to Saturday essentially. You got your ideas together on the Tuesday, Wednesday. They were fed up to Dundee to Head Office. They would come back with a response - "Yeah, we'll do that, we'll do this," or "we'll vary that." But it quite often was Thursday or Fri[…]

[…] 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[…]

[…]t was an interesting experiment. Because when I got to the school there I had to share a dormitory with a lot of little black girls and I said to the headmistress, "Do you think I could sleep in the balcony because I don't like the smell of the black girls." And she said to me, "Let me tell you some[…]

[…]s how we got there. The pig farmer  backed out a week before shooting. And so I was 3000 pounds missing. And I went to see the Midland Bank, the head offices and Poultry in Windsor street in the city. And the managing director said it Well, I've got to go ahead. I've got commitments to make the[…]

[…]ovies. 'Kissing Cups Race', which was later converted to sound.Roy Fowler: Yes. Who were some of the technicians, then, in the senior positions? Heads of departments?Vernon Sewell: Well Geoffrey Faithfull was a cameraman and his assistant was Arthur Grant, who became quite a good cameraman[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]because my costume was so (laughing) boring. The wigs they sent you had to be seen to be believed. Now, you used to have a great join across your forehead; I mean no-one would believe the things we had to put on our head. Though you can imagine having beautiful fresh costumes designed by Lord Longfo[…]