[…]was your role? R: I started as a Researcher in Granada which was the way that everybody started and I spent the first year, more or less, in the Newsroom and we, kind of, did everything. But the person I probably learned most from at the beginning was a Presenter called Tony Wilson and Tony was[…]
[…]sp; No: one Sky Sports channel, Sky News, two movies channels, and Sky One. Sky One budget about £30 million/year, all acquired. I was in charge of Sky One, looking after movies channels[…]
[…]ecome a full time editor. And I went up to Birmingham and spent 12 years there. At least .BG What's the programmes?CY Using current. It was all local news and current affairs local news documentary news programs not the not the meatiy network stuff because all the staff just got the best if anyone s[…]
[…]hing terrible happened yesterday.' He said, 'tell me tell me Rog, what happened? What happened?' He said, 'well, I was reading the, I was reading the news and I turned over two pages.' 'Oh tell, tell me more what happened' he said, 'well I'd got to the bottom of the page and I said, I said something[…]
[…]nt was slightly fragmented and she was current affairs bossDavid Attenborough: And there was this very doctrinaire thing that current affairs was not news, which still dogs the BBC, because current affairs could include comment, not editorialised but it could allow people to put opinion in and news […]
[…]were both at Shepherds Bush reporting at that time.Margaret Thompson 27:30 I was an extratwo or three months that was really alone in the newsroom. Yes, Roy Drew was head of the newsreel cutting drama centre. Remember, I remembered hardly at all.Anyhow.Yes, yes. Yes.So should we have a b[…]
[…]or usbecause we were a fairly rich family. It was knife edge for a farmer who was a tenant farmer and hislambs were a few shillings too low, bad, bad news ..Taylor/Peet: Was there a bothy?Denis Forman: There was a bothy and we had lads down from Glasgow. They came down from theslums of Glasgow, how […]
[…], was it towards dramatic writing, did you plan to be a novelist perhaps.VG: No, in the early days, in my very early teens I drifted into writing for newspapers and I was in Fleet St where I used to do the film page for the Sphere and the London Illustrated News, and all the fan magazines of those d[…]
