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[…]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[…]

[…]t telling the story right you may as well forget it. So that was one of the valuable lessons I learnt there.Alan Lawson: Every shot is not an Academy Award.Freddie Francis: No, sometimes, I have a wonderful camera operator called Gordon Hayman who has just been with me ever since French Lieutenant's[…]

[…]ould like to say about how things are, will be, I'm talking about the future of, of, British television especially of course, the future of the BBC, ITV.David Attenborough: Everything, particularly television is changing enormously. And it is futile and Canute like to suppose that things, any elemen[…]

[…] you can make them, like you know. I won't make TV movies any more because they give two and a […]

1 HP0190 David Attenborough – Transcript. The copyright is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Attenborough, television director, producer. […]

[…]hout the 70s, the department expanded until I can remember in 1978, I think it was about then, and I just begun Empire road. David hare won the BAFTA Award for licking Hitler. Gangsters was our series. Alan Bleasdale had just done the first black stuff, film. And this all went out in one sees. So I […]

[…] a long time for an artist to be able to work into doing something and getting exactly what you want. And just as you're ready to roll cameras or the TV show, the union says it's time for a break or you're going to pay double time or triple time or what have you. And that used to infuriate me used t[…]