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[…]keup and little Hollywood, it seemed to be a very female occupation, you get a few male in Hollywood, a lot of the top ones actually are male, but in TV know that most of the female getting my old one. In effects. It was the other way around. And the majority were boys and there was probably one on […]
BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Speechmatics.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this[…]
[…] people in line. Which. Was. In its infancy I was losing a lot of people because. The BBC was babies here and they had one channel in those days the ITV or something else. So they were they were news you know to people because ITV were. Probably seeing all sorts of things like holidays and. Car deci[…]
[…]a first class ticket. Nothing like it is today, but nevertheless it was first class and I was in a carriage – and I always swore I’d write a play for tv and put this scene in, and sitting opposite me were three officers –McG: [interrupting] Hang on a moment there Harry because we are going to change[…]
[…]a soap really because Coronation Street was trundling away being frightfully sort of successful and The BBC, if you remember for a long time, I mean ITV wiped the floor with BBC Drama didn’t they because with few exceptions BBC didn’t seem to get it right somehow, it took a long time for people…With[…]
[…]ly on the bus seat.Speaker 2  59:46  Right. So obviously investing heavily at this time, presumably in response to what was happening with ITV.Speaker 1  59:55  Oh, absolutely. Yes, yes, yes. So there was real competition going on. In fact, one of the problems the BBC were having[…]
[…]er met in my life. The broadcast is well I prefer the broadcasters that's here. But I had a great problem trying to get in at that time. And all the ITV companies turned me down. But the BBC read through my thing and said Would I like to I then applied to the BBC to go in as the as the the man in ch[…]
INTERVIEW WITH PETER SARGENT, 8/5/2000PS: Peter Sargent; MS: Mike Sargent; DB: David BrownDB. What is your earliest memory, Peter? Where did you actually start?PS. I started in 1934, at Lime Grove, which of course has gone now, Lime Grove at Shepherd's Bush, and I started there. And the reason I sta[…]
