[…]up in television.[25:03]No. Hugh Wheldon told me that seventy-five per cent of the people they put on those courses for BBC2... Mm.Either went off to ITV or abroad, or well at least fell by the way? Oh really?They only got twenty-five per cent out of all those courses, yes. All those courses, yes, i[…]
[…]generous funding arrangement whereby the people who were responsible for the programming had absolutely no responsibility for generating the revenue. ITV was obliged to pay us a proportion of their revenues in exchange for being allowed to sell the airtime on Channel 4. So the separation between the[…]
[…]ver met in my life. The broadcast is well I prefer the broadcasters that's here. But I had a great problem trying to get in at that time. And all the ITV companies turned me down. But the BBC read through my thing and said Would I like to I then applied to the BBC to go in as the as the the man in c[…]
[…]hat, that was nice. Like me he came from the theatre, so we had a lot in common.Rodney Giesler: There was a great infusion from the theatre really on ITV wasn't there?Dicky Leeman: There was.Rodney Giesler: More than the 'Beeb'? I mean there was much more - I mean the Grades for instance had a treme[…]
[…]er that year could well be I know BBC 2 was first starting to go into ITV when I came back from America in 1968. I made the very first commercial […]
