[…]th Bill Salter going out onto the set, which he liked - Bill Salter. He'd hold his hand up and say, "Put the microphone there." And I used to put the mike there, and that was it, you know I used to have to 'favour' it and things like that you see, and we got by. And after a while he said to me, "Loo[…]
[…] "Put the microphone there." And I used to put the mike there, and that was it, you know I used […]
[…] to Channel Four, this is quite funny, thirteen years ago, Mike Custer [ph 31:41] was arts features editor. SF: Yes, […]
[…]e funny because on my final...SF: And most of them still around?Oh yes. When I finally went to Channel Four, this is quite funny, thirteen years ago, Mike Custer [ph 31:41] was arts features editor.SF: Yes, indeed he was.And he walked in, he walked past, I’d not met him. He walked past and, Naomi Se[…]
[…]but I can't recall any incidents of any of my ideas taking root.Alan Lawson : Well it was a difficult time wasn't it? Because, how sensitive were the mikes in those days?Peter Birch : Oh they weren't too bad at all, the trouble was noise you see. The cameras weren't properly silent, so they had to b[…]
INTERVIEW WITH PETER SARGENT, 8/5/2000PS: Peter Sargent; MS: Mike Sargent; DB: David BrownDB. What is your earliest memory, Peter? Where did you actually start?PS. I started in 1934, at Lime Grove, which of course has gone now, Lime Grove at Shepherd's Bush, and I started there. And the reason I sta[…]
[…] "Evergreen", when he hit Saville on the head with a mike, and Saville said, "you do that again you're fired" […]
[…] got from Oxford. I've forgotten what he I mean us take it. You know that the German grammar is very difficult. It is ever so difficult even a German Mike, and he says, I couldn't, but he spoke with a terrible English accent. The Germans couldn't even understand him. And I remember we were doing one[…]
