Michael (Mickey) Hickey

[…]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[…]

Philip Bonham-Carter

[…]f the BBC’ and your own company:  an ITV company for the first time. PB-C: Yes. DB: Was it? PB-C: It was in a way, although I had ITN, as a result partly because of this debacle between The Prince of Wales and Princess Diana, I have a feeling, let me get this right, I think the P[…]

Francis Gysin

[…] programs with the exception of the newsreels. In the case of BBC News and ITN we produced at all maybe six monthly intervals a sample real of stock shots&[…]

Jenny Barraclough

[…] 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[…]

William R Vicker

[…]came from underneath me. Yes, you know, I think I've trained practically all the the younger generation who been to Sydney's and then left and joined ITN and all that sort of thing. What about the earlier generation in the camera departments that Pinewood and Denham and Noel, the ones at Pinewood?Un[…]

David Elstein

[…]bsp;  There was so much irrationality, even at that point, in the way broadcasting operated. I was amazed when I arrived about the contract with ITN for Channel 5 News, £11 million/year. I said ‘When I costed this we were getting it for £7 million, so why pay £11?’. I waited for the break point[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]own the newsreel. So that was father out of work and. The year before when ITN was starting up. He had the chance of of. Running ITN and he turned it&[…]

Industry websites

[…] Libraries. www.itn1955club.co.uk Site dedicated to memories of the spirit of ITN; the ITN 1955 Club was formed in 1989. www.ofcom.org.uk […]
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