[…]n poor Alan Martin was getting on a documentary or something. Anyway, the point was you were actually making cutting decisions. So apart from all the normal assistants in the cutting room, although we were trainees, we were doing assistants’ jobs. But there were very few, there were five of us went […]
[…], obviously very kindly, probably Lloyd said, ‘You’ve got to ask Daphne’, because I carried the whole of the last series with Roger. I mean normally they’d had four, five directors on this series, and Roger and I did them all between us.JPH: Live.DS: Live. And I think somebody had pro[…]
[…] made fun of him because the actors were treated so well by him there. He was the first producer to give holidays with pay to actors back in the 30s. Normally brought on at the end of the contract that was it. But he virtually started what became an accepted thing through Equity that if you were the[…]
[…]p in ITV but somewhere, anyway he went. And, and well now it came 1943 and we were, as far as the services were concerned, we were deferred until 19, normally you were called up at 18 in the war and but we, because of the job were allowed to stay on until we were 19. And we were also allowed to volu[…]
[…]hought they were very good. We would be very specific about going to see them at least two or three times during the run if they were longer than the normal one or two week repertory turnaround. One of the people I met there was another gentleman, a gentleman who had also had pretensions to becoming[…]
[…]d all those technical fellows are so incredible. I think in England they’re the best, everybody says so, just remarkable. So all that was done first. Normally speaking you wouldn’t have had that sort of thing to contend with.The next thing I usually do is decide the sort of mood of the whole thing a[…]
[…]tion of, you know, things in the room or whatever, whatever. Anyhow, it was a much more fluid style and it was the beginning, which is now absolutely normal and nobody thinks about it at all, but it did cause a lot of flak in those days, and I enjoyed very, very much working for that year with Jonat[…]
