[…]t for Dallas with the Americans, the price was going up. So, without telling his own chairman apparently, or telling the other managing directors of ITV, he secretly tried to negotiate a deal where he could buy Dallas away from the BBC. Now in America you get the congressional medal of honour for st[…]
[…]was a WaltonAlan Legard  31:01  work going there was a there was a lot of when I am in the editingRichard Marden  31:06  days by ITV That's right. I remember being sound editor  I was  asked to go down to Falmouth  where they have the Galleon  for in order to[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 25[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-01-24Interview Date: 1987-10-28Interviewers: Stephen PeetInterviewee: Philip LeacockTape 1, Side 1Stephen Peet: Ah, here we are, 28th October 1987. Name of interviewee, Philip Leacock, interviewed by Stephen Peet. The […]
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[…]ldn't have been able to do the frost report. So ever outdoors he said, how lucky I was I was in a flop just the right time that enabled him to do the TV series. Right Place Right Time. You can't plan these things but been so lucky. It's happened like that.Derek Threadgall  14:52  I think m[…]
[…]d. Everybody wanted to get on television in those days...Alan Lawson: [interrupts] Yes...Cyril Page: And er... to see er...like Castro or Shell or Britvic or like that on the box, I mean, it was worth millions of pounds to them all, and wherever we went, we always...people used to say, "Can you do t[…]