[…]isted by Denis Forman. Assisted by David Plowright. I mean, all of them knew what programme making was about. At LWT, John Freeman, I mean, here, you know, the man who had been a master diplomat, Ambassador in Washington…and High Commissioner in New Delhi. […]
[…] I’d resigned, unemployed, offered job at LWT about to launch in August 1968 but didn’t much like the people. Jeremy offered me a job on This Week but couldn’t take it up until Rediffusion/Tha[…]
[…]very single show and departments – taken very seriously. Erm, and it was a staff job, in fact I was the last staff film researcher to get taken on at LWT in June ’87, which says a lot about casualisation in television. And, I was, er, successful. And started there not long after. I certainly 20[…]
[…] the last staff film researcher to get taken on at LWT in June ’87, which says a lot about casualisation […]
[…]amme background rather than have caught them. The chronological point of view unions have, butJohn P Hamilton 36:16 maybe it wasn't until LWT, you became officially a student.Gerald Chambers 36:21 Yes, if I remember, rightly,John P Hamilton 36:25 like Tony Barton […]
[…]o was John and he elected that we should go together to see my least favourite person, Frank Muir.[0:20:32]JPH: He was Head of Light Entertainment at LWT. I told this story in my history project.Let me ask why he’s your least favourite person.DS: I find him not amusing whatsoever, I’ve always found […]
[…]body from ITN actually to do the programmeor did you...Well, we put it out to tender, essentially. We had two serious pitches for it and one was from LWT, John Birt and Barry Cox pitched this programme to me, and bear in mind I amLiz Forgan Page 7Miss No-one from nowhere, I’ve never worked in t[…]
