[…]h, I don't know where we go from now with 100 of all television channels, a proliferation of things all over the place. You haven't got the clean cut picture of what's going on when you had BBC, ITV. It isn't as clean cut a world now it's all over the place, but I'm just an idealist. I just hope the[…]
[…]therefore if I were to continue at the Studio, I had a two hour journey each way.(TIME 07.06) So, I went to Warwick Ward and said: “My family is moving backto London and please promise me that I can be an Assistant Continuity” because Ialready by then knew what I wanted to do. “So, if you […]
[…]I had to do… I what I was down on the… down on the sheet to cover. But it was very… very menial tasks, to deliberately humiliate me. MDThe picture you’re painting is… of the BBC… it’s going back to the idea that it doesn’t cope with people like you… at all… at all well? BAIf I … if I[…]
[…]hankyou (laughs)RF: Right, and we'll start at the beginning. Would you sketch in your family background and ultimately how you came to work in motion pictures?LK: My father was a grain merchant and I had a rather interesting childhood because he had granaries and the ships came and went on the […]
[…]een, had I been round there, but in order to avoid climbing over this thing these blasted, one of these blasted union maniacs said, ‘What’s she doing moving that cable?’ And I seem to remember we did actually come to a stop for that, until you know, everybody said, ah don’t be so ridiculous, y[…]
[…]w, like, digging in the air and all this sort of thing. We got some mongongo Nuts from the Kalahari Desert. If you have ever had the fortune to see a picture of the mongongo tree, you will know it's always a solitary tree. And there's nothing else growing around it. So we have this brilliant idea th[…]