[…] in reality he was just a very very good rough journalist and it was difficult to woo him away from […]
[…] member of the NUJ? Did you see yourself as a journalist and other people see themselves as technicians or did […]
[…]livered to its destination in ample time for the Pavilion projectionist to get it spooled up. By sheer chance in the days leading up to the journey a journalist working for the SUNDAY SUN, who was related to Sir William Coldstream (one of the heads of the BFI), had called in for a chat after one of […]
[…]central Lanarkshire with nobody in the immediate family that would point me in any direction, somehow or other I got it in my head that I should be a journalist. I: OK. So, farming was never the option? R: No. I loved horses, I hated cows and sheep! And that was just, well, I don't see the[…]
[…]ly believing I would be ashamed today if I hadn't been what I had been that they let us the start on something else. And so I married a young English journalist called Coker, Albert Coker, and, who was a friend of a friend of the Humphrey Slater’s, who was a well- known intellectual Communist Union,[…]
[…]e Quakers, they were members of the ILP, Fabians I guess... kind of Christian Socialists. [00:02:32] So when war started, as a pacifist and as a journalist I think he was working on the Daily Sketch. That was the kind of background against which I was, I mean, from which I came. My brother and […]
[…] on something else. And so I married a young English journalist called Coker, Albert Coker, and, who was a friend […]
[…]here was an augmented crew. So, a News crew could go out and shoot a two-minute story on sound so a Sound Recordist and Cameraman could go out with a Journalist and shoot a two-minute story. If you needed lights you had an Electrician so it was, like, a four-man crew because you could shoot up to a […]
[…]pondent, which was a wee bit off-putting! However, I made a joke about not having Jocky Wilson with me and we carried on so that's how I started as a journalist. The first day was remarkable! I was given a story to do in George Square about a new Arts event that was happening - no training! Abs[…]
[…]e got to give a luncheon party andit’s at the Café Royal, and would you like to come along and sort of make it up and you can talk to a couple of the journalists that I’ve got, you know, I’m giving this lunch to’. And ‘Yeah, I’d love that’. So I go, and I was standing in the foyer of theCafé Royal a[…]