[…]n the days of TWW, Television Wales in the West, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and the glamorous team that won the Harlech licence to broadcast ITV. And so for two years I produced what was called the Peter Williams Column in the programme paper for TWW, and I was absolutely wrong – actually w[…]
[…]ig was the famous magazine programme for children where Michael Westmore was, he was producing it. And he produced it and then he came across to ITV and was my boss for quite a while. Robert Tronson, the marvellous, I think he’s a marvellous director. In fact it was his Darling Buds o[…]
[…]rain at Victoria. And I felt in my pocket and I could feel this crinkly paper so I got it out and it was a flyer saying, "Get your sets converted for ITV. ITV will be with you in a couple of years' time and you should get ready for channel 9." And I thought to myself, "Fat lot of good that is. That […]
[…]nged I think all television has changed totally changed. Instead of being run by ex programme people as the BBC was always run by, and if you look at ITV, most of the bosses in ITV when I first went to Thames, Brian Cowgill was the managing director and he had been controller of BBC1 he was an ex pr[…]
[…] in the beginning of the television but they mean 55', they don't realise it had been going 10 years before they joined.RF: Yes from the beginning of ITV. 8. More on Lime GroveRF: Do you remember how long each day the station was on the air, there are two stations now, right, they're transmitti[…]
[…]ing me my career.Unknown Speaker  5:53  When I finished the three yearsUnknown Speaker  5:58  that BBC had lost a lot of staff to ITV, of course, because there was nowhere else to recruit them from. So I joined the BBC.Unknown Speaker  6:09  It turned out not to really […]
[…]g the Boat enormously when I was the first producer to say look, this is crazy right and why we just keep talking about the BBC. I mean, people watch ITV you know, why can't really talk about ITV. They said all right. So it was very funny because the head of presentation guy called Rex Morford was s[…]
[…] it was an infant. He was still expanding. And Harry Coventry  49:33  OBS had gone through. They'd gone through the start of ITV. ITV had started maybe a couple of years earlier, and had taken a lot of the staff out of out of outside broadcasts from in BBC, into ITV, a lot o[…]
