[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]cause one of the London papers took it up and said, how do they spend our money on this nonsense, you know, and so the tackler cinematic showed it so Mikey was telling me now that they've showed it with a poster outside is this film with 6000 pounds of your own money. So that was right. And that wen[…]
