[…] was a financial genius. She would say it’s no good Cartier selecting an expensive picture, I cannot pay for it.Norman Swallow: You never worked for ITVRudi Cartier: I never worked for ITV, I had many, many tempting offers, which always came back yes we will pay you more. Not one commercial, nothing[…]
[…]ere is, is what part of London television or London freelance? It's,Keith Ewart 27:28 oh, no, we're free. You are free, but we're on the ITV, agree with last people on the agreement has made with all the stations. I think we're the last people on it. But anyway, it's just we're on the on[…]
[…]ie Fuller comedies.RF: A couple of questions, was that a typical procedure, that someone such as Lane would ghost for him and then he'd take the creditVG: I really wouldn’t know, I wouldn't think so, Nip really was acting on the thing he was doing me a favour and this was a way in if I wanted to hel[…]
[…] the days of TWW, Television Wales in the West, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and the glamorous team that won the Harlech licence to broadcast ITV. And so for two years I produced what was called the Peter Williams Column in the programme paper for TWW, and I was absolutely wrong – actually wo[…]
[…]of work - commercial television was starting - wandered along and saw Michael Yates in which we know who were head of departments at Rediffusion and ATV I got a job with Richard Real (?) ATV - 00:05:42Very funny story about that because he said to me “Yes we can offer you a job here”. &nb[…]
[…]ht to do to make it work and that was real hard work.DR: The other thing that makes amazes me that you were able to go straight into the gallery of a tv studio and direct a live television production, you must have had some training, you must can’t go straight inWT: I didn’t have any at all and I be[…]
[…]markable. You know he and John Houston were there because of something rather extraordinary which I learned in John Houston's autobiography Anatole Litvak who ran the American forces tell me it had covered the landing in North Africa by the American troops with unfortunately one director cameraman w[…]
[…]or the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's Oral History project. The interviewer is Janet McBain, the date is 14th July 2018 and the place is the STV's studio in Glasgow. The copyright of this recording is vested in the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group. We will start at the very beginning. Yo[…]
