[…]p;In Colour series, The Second World War in Colour and The British Empire in Colour and these kind of programmes, which were ITV programmes but we had the knowhow and the machinery to deal some aspects of those. I dealt with all of the 8mm footage that went into The Wor[…]
[…] suddenly ABC Television offered me a job! I'd never really been thinking in terms of television but ABC was, of course, the Drama company in the old ITV setup. You know, they produced, for instance, something like thirty-five amateur theatres a year and they were doing series like, when I first joi[…]
[…], there was guest hospitality. But that was STV in those days. [32:26]I: OK. So you joined STV in 1979. That was the year of the big strike with ITV. Were you involved with that? R: Yes. I was out, round about twelve weeks, I think, we were out for. Something like that. It was quite a long[…]
[…]om STV and it was because they had a sickness problem on a new outlet called STV Oracle which was an experimental, regional form of the Teletext. The ITV Teletext service. So, I came in on a three-week contract to cover for sickness in this little team in Oracle in a room with no windows in the midd[…]
[…]ink Philip, as I understand it, thought that the Royal Family should be seen more as individuals rather than ‘the Monarchy’. So, a consortium of ITV and BBC got together, so the idea of making the film was born and Dick Cawston was approached to be the director. And so we spent a year following[…]
[…]d say, Fine. It was absolutely fine. I mean, what were there were restrictive practices of what again, later on Margaret Thatcher picked up on was in ITV, where ITV as Sydney Burstein said was, if you've got, if you've got a franchise, whatever it was called, if you got lice, if you've got if you're[…]
