[…]as it Dorte or Cox? Or...Cyril Page: [interrupts] Oh, Cox! Harold Cox. Oh yes, Harold Cox. Yes, yes. He was there right till the time I left to go to ITN. Well, Dorte was still there, but Dorte left about a couple of weeks before...er I did, because he went to start ITN up...Alan Lawson: [interrupts[…]
[…]n.That went on for quite a time and then I was approached by a man called Philip Doughty. AndPhilip Doughty, who was my boss at the BBC, told me that ITN were being formed and wouldcare to join Independent Television News. And I thought a lot about this and I talked to my wifeand thought....you know[…]
[…]bsp; And he flatly refused to talk to the BBC. Flatly refused to speak to his friend John Morgan. What was worse, he gave an interview to ITN. ITN did not have the facilities on the train. ITN threw the tape out at Crewe Station and got the interview on the air before we did.[…]
[…]the longest I'd ever had, you know. And my mother-in-law was alive at that time. I was down at the bottom of the garden and she came down, she said, "ITN's on the 'phone, they want to talk to you." So I went in, they said, "Hello, this is Roy Colwell[?] at ITN. Can you do a day's work for us tomorro[…]
[…]y wasn’t very happy either. And I think the audience missed not having any sport. So we had to compromise on some of those things, but still and all, ITN took a bit of persuading about this, but we had a very powerful card with which to persuade them, because for the first time we were a customer wi[…]
[…]he BBC. That was the kind of trade-off so everybody that was good anywhere else in the industry very quickly ended up coming into ITV, BBC, well ITV, ITN, STV and, you know, the independent broadcasters. So, yeah, it was amazing! You suddenly thought, Wow! The people in here are...I'm kind of lucky […]
[…] got a big opportunity to do a feature film Ido think documentaries always appealed to me more. About real people rather than make up.SRSo you joined ITN I think in nineteen sixty three. And there was lots of news that year.Could I just read out?JBYeahSRIt was the height of cold war and start of Vie[…]
[…]much depth as we could possibly muster so that if there was a vote in the House of Commons, we would do a special half-hour after than night out from ITN then in then Foley Street London and I remember Davy Johnson who was, by that time, Director of Programmes, saying to me once, he said, "Don't you[…]
[…]orable things! [09:40]I: So, how long did you remain on the...? R: I joined STV in '71 and I got a job as a Cameraman for the first year at ITN rates or something. That was the pay scale and I wasn't allowed to shoot anything other than News footage and, in theory, the grading was for a si[…]
