[…]merging Grampian with STV, kind of serving the whole of Scotland totally made sense and, kind of, nearing what ITV has done across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. I think the issue was, subsequent to that, was acquiring, you know, brands like Virgin, Primesight, that didn't really have much of […]
[…]me a very successful Newscaster at the BBC, and Martin covered the north of England as I recall, down to Manchester I would imagine, and Scotland and Northern Ireland and Martin would always drive up if a story was big enough and ITN wanted to cover it. But, of course, this usually meant that he arr[…]
[…]: I remember these ones too! These are the ones to remember! I: Oh aye! Have you got any more? [21:36] Were you involved in the Queen's visit to Northern Ireland?! R: Yes. I: That's a wealth of stories! R: Well, we'd arrived at, oh, I can't remember which one of the venues. […]
[…]always up to the minute! I just said to my wife, "Don't expect me!" But it was mostly commercials. We did some, Malcolm McAllister had come from Northern Ireland so he had some contacts with UTV so we did some game shows, some sort of It's a Knock Out! style game stuff for them which they seeme[…]
[…] know any plane could reach Bristol.Unknown Speaker 11:10 They have a wide range of the aircraftUnknown Speaker 11:14 flew to Northern Ireland or Banga Banga The, the other thing was,Unknown Speaker 11:33 somebody confused the bank.Unknown Speaker 11:35 &nbs[…]
[…]s old; moved back to England where JB went to school in Cumberland and then London, while his father and brother were still abroad; JB started at the Northern Polytechnic on Holloway Road, most students were sons of builders; the rumblings of war had started and JB had a distaste for what was happen[…]
[…]would wash me in the sink so he would let the blood run away’ and this kind of stuff. And it was these kinds of gags, and it was told with that northern humour, that kind of hard..... I watched it the night before and I thought to myself, well, you’re not going to make this one. An[…]
[…]ually the studio was burnt down, wasn’t it?
44 Bernard Nedell (1898-1972) was an American actor whose films included Slightly Honourable (1940) and Northern Pursuit (1943)
I: We were talking about Julius Hagan for whom you made several films....one or two, three, four, something like that....C[…]
[…]logically now. Alan Lawson: After the army school, Norman Swallow: Then what?Julia Cave: After the army school, we came back and we went to Northern Ireland [long pause] where I was the only Protestant [laughter] in a Catholic convent, because the convent happened to be dead opposite to wh[…]
