[…]yed ‘Finlandia’, and ‘An 18th Century Drawing Room’. I got a good hand.SC: You had to do a lot of things, presumably.EB: When the boys couldn’t drill outside because it was raining, they all used to come in for 9 pence, and I’d play a dance session for them.SC: You did children’s matinees.EB: Childr[…]
[…]e round with the Donald Wilson 2:04piano didn't come round with the laws of Canada, they're in the hall. And the projection set himself up outside the hall and Trump backwards through the thing, you know, the whole thing and made it look better. And so we bouncing up and down the seats of[…]
[…]ording of it and that's the only reason we still today have the opening night of STV with Kenneth McKellar and James Robertson Justice etc and a live outside broadcast from somewhere, that's the only reason that exists. It wasn't recorded locally. They didn't have the means to record it locally at t[…]
[…]d on the principle that they would they had a consultant, who in this case, I think at that time was Arthur Elton to produce their film saw them from outside and they themselves had a unit, which, whose members they employed. But working to Elton and I wrote the music for that film. My friend Michae[…]
[…]then. It was inappropriate. It was quite right that it should have been axed, Nick Gilbey 27:47 you know, right. So, on to outside broadcasts then, or just, Elizabeth Bale 27:53 well, I was doing them while I was on Animal Magic with other produc[…]
[…]r they mostly all been in the war part of the war operation in some fashion and it was a good time in the States these are the Truman years. Mind you outside of course McCarthy and all that you must remind me about McCarthy. But, erm, I think they to some extent patronised me, I was still very young[…]
[…]hment of four marauders from Number 14 squadron which was based at bleeder just outside Algiers. So there were four aircraft. That bleeder for Corsica and for that&n[…]
[…]r independent production of The Bill. I invited Ewart Needham, Head of Studios at Thames, to compete but it didn’t match up. I said ‘I’ll go with the outside version’ but Richard Dunn said ‘Give Ewart one more chance’. He came back with a version just a bit cheaper than independent proposal – don’t […]
[…] in dig so in Birmingham, so I continued my amateur radio interests by operating from the car, and which was quite useful, particularly when I was on outside broadcasts, because you got to know the if you were, you know, billeted somewhere in Norfolk or wherever you got to live, talk to the local ra[…]
[…]ync and you couldn’t hurry it.CR: Obviously you collaborated with your team, and other teams within the BBC. Did you have much liaison with personnel outside the corporation? So, directors or distributors, film producers who were…TE: Certainly people at my sort of level didn’t really have much conta[…]
