[…]I was a bit of gas that the people around me who were more worried about taking their dog for a walk and a lawn mower and what was actually happening outside. Anyway, I knuckled down, joined the Union, and really got quite involved in local labor party. Initially, and I think by 1971 I was one of th[…]
[…] her out and she had to stand in the corridor outside during the rest of the dinner. And it was […]
[…] Directors were, it's not in anyone's interest to be disruptive in a small crew and because you're a small crew, you're all, when you work in a large Outside Broadcast you can be dislocated from the meaning of the work so therefore you can grump! "Och! When are we going home?!" "Oh, God!" The first […]
[…] And I literally spent a whole year on OB s, outside broadcast s, which was always a one day stand […]
[…]fully checked and double-checked and indeed it worked both ways because you couldn't just willy nilly add hours. I mean in the early days a good many outside broadcasts happened as a means of adding hours to what was allowed. Now we had bought a new outside broadcast van quite early on. Again, a goo[…]
[…]hey exposed. And there he was, and all the other lights in the area just came in, and the night fighters latched on. That was a general idea that was outside in the New Forest behind Christchurch. And then after that, I was transferred to Remy and sent to the Military College of Science for a six mo[…]
[…]once, whenever it's right for them, and right for me, and the subjects, right, sometimes it's very difficult to do that. Because you've come in as an outsider to an organisation out with the BBC, and the BBC have got to balance their books, they've got people on staff, they've got people on contract[…]
[…]e the film and they had a jungle setting with natives swinging on trap pieces and all sorts of things. And I never forget that that was an experience outside. There were beautiful stills big stills of Kong. And what the substance of the picture was so one of the first few lines of the music came and[…]
[…]n of dick Martin, one of the partners jack bull, the solicitor, very nice man in quaint Dickensian offices in Lincoln's Inn. And when we were sitting outside, we suddenly looked at one another who thought of it first we've had what a bloody silly name empirically is the Obama sheriff, why don't we j[…]
[…] to members of staff as well as people from the outside. Like for instance, you know, Ken Loach was on […]
