[…]d him to try and write the script, so he wrote it and they were very pleased with it and he was rather pleased that he was learning, because he was a journalist you see. And they said, "If we can get a script for you to do, would you like to carry on working on it?" And he said, "I'd like that very […]
[…]e were born and what was your family background. Well I was born in 1927. My parents were divorced but my father was when he wasn't drinking he was a journalist. But the lack of the drinking took more time I think than the writing my grandfather was a rather eminent ecclesiastical writer. He was the[…]
[…]sp;done that. No they don't. Having said that is why he's he's been a good journalist. Yeah I mean he's you know we miss him and when he goes he's got[…]
[…]ritish public are perfectly capable of recognising that. Of course you can't have people making outrageous things.But most of the best dramatists and journalists look at the human condition. Now that can always be interpreted as being left of centre. Always. But I don't know whether they're paid up […]
[…] offering jobs back to the former Bridgewater family, you see. So my father had various odd jobs. He was really a financial - well he was a, he was a journalist - but economics and finance were his subject. He had various odd jobs. I won't go into that. But one in particular, took him to Canada to b[…]
[…]ingsway, which was again slightly different, we didn’t have a reporter with us, but what I had was an Indian who could speak English, a sort of local journalist, and we’d go out and find the sequences and we’d film and he would interview, in Indian, he was offscreen, the various things, and they wou[…]
[…]as also, he also wrote books on town and country planning. Anyhow, he gathered around him, a few people, of which I was the filmmaker and others were journalists. And we were working on programmes to do a public relations job on New Zealand and we would have made films in New Zealand, Anstey was one[…]
[…]eport, a witty report of the proceedings at the EC and the General Secretary stepped in and stopped it being published. That's correct, to use an old journalistic phrase. I spiked it. I was very angry about it. I thought that the people had spent that great deal of money should be, should be publicl[…]
[…]producers' but they weren't really producers...David Prosser: Directors...yeah.Alan Lawson: Yeah, directors. They weren't really directors, they were journalists, weren't they, mostly?David Prosser: Um...it was usually OK, except for one chap, whose name I can't remember, and he was completely new t[…]
[…]thing is that I have a file with all these letters in them, but in the last three months, I've mislaid it, and I can't remember, have I given it to a journalist, or what I've done with it? It's a pity, because I have the letter that he wrote to my mother, which was extremely sensible, and it was he […]
