[…]ies so I was a librarian as well! Ordering books on shelves and mostly reading books behind the shelves and, you know, exploring the vastness of the Mitchell Library so kind of twin passions for literature and electronics at the same time was a bit bonkers. That wasn't a good idea because I actually[…]
[…]d adventurous period. But Jeremy wanted to do away with presenters and Robin Day didn’t like this, engineered a coup, got Jeremy ousted. Jeremy then pitched up at Rediffusion before it became Thames, started recruiting Panorama people for This Week, starting with his favourite producer Philip Whiteh[…]
[…] we had lads down from Glasgow. They came down from theslums of Glasgow, how they were recruited I don't know, it could have been the Salvation Army, itcould have been some other kind of beneficial agency of that kind. They turned up, they werescrubbed, they were given a bath in disinfectant and giv[…]
[…] tough-guy drama (Danger Man and Man in a Suitcase for ITC). I still remember Robin Hood and Danger Man with […]
[…]y part? You wanted to know the feel around the studio.Roy Fowler: Well yes, the feel and also some of the characters. These were the years when Hitchcock was more or less a journeyman director...E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well Hitch left about the first or second year to go to Gaumont. And he did[…]
[…]e time they were working flat out in the studio. We had up to ten pages at once working there. A TV beginnings of TV staff TV series with them ATV as ITC and we had second features we had all sorts of things going on. It was pandemonium. And it was a very very tough job because the first job had to […]
