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[…] All Seasons. Peter got the Director's Guild Hollywood Assistant Directors Award for it. And he was a great guy and […]

sidney-cole-transcript-1987

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 7 [Copyright BECTU] Transcription Date: (Digital: 2012-10-02) Interview Date: 1987-07-09 Interviewers: Alan Lawson, Arthur […]

Interview

[…]because I actually failed my course at university and, funny enough, failed graduates were what were perceived to be the head of Sound Department at STV's idea of the right kind of person to put in the team because graduates, at a functional level, graduates always wanted to move on. They always wan[…]

Interview

[…]t, the last four. And at last, with WILD WINGS, which wasn't the best of them, to be nominatedreally, but this - it got an Oscar. And we got a lot of awards for that er - Venice, we had the main British Film Academy Award, I think, three years.. And the Venice, main Venice award on three, three or f[…]

Philip Bonham-Carter

[…]nk Philip, as I understand it, thought that the Royal Family should be seen more as individuals rather than ‘the Monarchy’. So, a consortium of ITV and BBC got together, so the idea of making the film was born and Dick Cawston was approached to be the director. And so we spent a year following […]

John Wiles

[…] But I saw it. I look at a programme and they taken about a couple of minutes of it with all the things sequence out of it, you know, and shown it on TV. I don't know how they got it. I don't know where it is, you know, where would they get it? I don't know.Glyn Jones  41:47  I don't know.[…]

Michael Aldridge

Interviewer  0:00  This is an interview with Mike Aldridge and is the property of the History Project for BECTU.  The date today is the 15th of September 1997. And, Mike,can I ask you where and when you were born?Michael Aldridge  0:20  I was born in 1941 in East London and […]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]n various things. They were good. John Warren, whose real name was Warner, was an ex-actor, and he used to do that terrible commercial programme for ATV in Birmingham, Mrs Somebody's Lodger, who was it? Don't you remember? Well you were probably very lucky not to see them. I only saw them because I […]

Peggy Gick

[…]nyway, so that particular period you must have been very, very busy...Peggy Gick: Oh gosh, yes I was...John Legard: ...and this is the early days of ITV and they were mostly shot in black and white weren't they? I mean, we were still in the black and white days virtually, 'cause colour didn't come i[…]
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