[…]oducing Link which was a community project that Central ran at the time in the days when Central, when, when the independent un-centralised ITV companies still did run some community daytime television and they, they found the money for that. And Link was about the disabled on th[…]
[…]I hadn't got over to the other side in fact I'd never been asked to. There was quite. BBC was occupying me pretty fully and I was a bit frightened of ITV. So I went on doing plays for the BBC and I think that the first ITV one was I can't remember what year but I think it wasn't until ‘68, quite lat[…]
[…]o, three years.Lew Grade : Oh! Unbelievable. I just can't understand it.Alan Sapper : You know, this ... that Television Act has destroyed, you know, ITV as we knew it. As it served the public.Lew Grade : Yes. It's a terrible thing to have a central planning committee who approve everything, I mean […]
[…]ow, it was nice to have the letter.Yes, yes.I’ve got the letters.The other consistent thing is you always worked for The BBC, you never worked for an ITV company.No.Were you ever tempted to, I mean so many people did during that time?No, I wasn’t tempted to.Never thought of it?Well, I considered it.[…]
[…]now. Jan Parry her programmes are accurate and well delivered.NS: You also stayed with the BBC throughout your career. Did you ever think of going to ITV?MD: No I never did. There wouldn’t be any serious stuff there except one odd show. The BBC was very good to me. I had a job until I chose to retir[…]
[…] that time: The Free Communications Group, which had started some years before; The 76 Group, which was an organisation of production staff from both ITV and the BBC, and that was amazingly the first occasion when I had ever met a counterpart of mine who worked in commercial television. I[…]
