[…] 2  7:59  But in 1937 i Someone gave me an introduction to basil, right? I forget who it was, and he received me very kindly, but he had no opening in his company realist films. Then, even, even then it was called realist films. He sent me across Oxford Street to strand films, where Paul R[…]
[…]ber, it was the last programme on the air. Yes, it had a kind of rather loose end. Mike Fentiman  34:28  Yes, it did. It was open ended. I mean, open ended, depending on what the current arrangement there were with crews and the unions and so on, you know, so, I mean, I gues[…]
[…] slightly theatrical version. But I hoped I hope that what I did was as cinematic as really  as possible, I there's no good  saying want to open out  the play. The very point of the Maids  is is a weak low situation, it's got to be an enclosed, suffocating atmosphere. And that do[…]
[…]ment was at Television Centre by thistime. We had one wing, part of it was open.There were no studios. The studios were at Lime Grove but one wing oftelevision […]
[…] so you were in a sort of B stream education really, there’s no doubt about it. But, fortunately for me, in the early seventies the doors of academia opened slightly and kids from ordinary backgrounds many working class backgrounds could go to university, the growth of humanities degrees, combined a[…]
[…]e me. And Emil Littler was in the front, and the American director, Helen Tamiris, she was in front. It was just three days after Bless the Bride had opened which was the most fantastic success and I’d directed it. So they were quite surprised to see me. We did our routine and Irvin got the job and […]
[…]uch part of the Tonight team, in the cutting and filtering through into the directing. And because I knew a lot about films I was also keeping my eye open for interesting films that were around that they could show clips of, and one of the ones I remember that was very influential, certainly on me, […]
[…]team. Slightly more news-orientated people came in to do the programme then and I went back to the theatre and, that was to Nottingham Playhouse. The opening of the new Nottingham Playhouse in '63, the end of '63 and that's really what started me on the road to television. [5:12]I'd been in the[…]
[…] just do not believe that you can get as sensitive a movement, whatever you’re doing, going up and down a sloping board like that as you can when you open the old-fashioned pot, which you could do very, very delicately. And I used to say to these young chaps in television, ‘I don’t know how yo[…]
[…]bsp;0:09  This is an interview with Edward Williams recorded by Rodney Giesler in Bristol on the 12th of January 1994. Tape one. Let me start by opening the vacant birth and your family background where you're born. Yes.Edward Williams  0:34  Well, my name, as you say it's Edward Will[…]
