[…] Light Entertainment specialist, and indeed, hadn't long won the Bafta for a show with Millie [Millicent] Martin, as I recall, as Light Entertainment Producer of the Year when we got it. Anyway, Martin, sorry, Francis wanted control of the programme and wanted to demonstrate his new powers and for s[…]
[…]s quite open-minded so yeah, you put a different hat on when you worked on each different...and, you know, the process was you had a meeting with the Producer/Director. Producer and Director and you discussed (or a planning meeting really) and you discussed the, what the core values of the programme[…]
[…]on in, in ...? There was discussion and we very consciously decided we wanted to, mm, cover the entire gamut, you know, from plasterers to producers. So it was eclectic rather than...? Oh absolutely eclectic, yes. There was no kind of sense of, mm, we’re g[…]
[…]r...on the District Line to Hounslow..." I...I think I got the train to Isleworth Studios, and er...It was Criterion Films - Marcel Hellman - and the Producer was Douglas Fairbanks Jnr., and the Cameraman was Victor Armenise, and the Operator was Cedric Williams....er, the Focus Puller was Louis Stu[…]
[…]t up and make films come hell or high water and increasingly are making very good films. That seems to be happening here now, at last.SF: Do you know producers like Sarah Radclyffe, for example?Yeah, yeah.SF: Some good people.Yeah, there’s some good solid people. Maybe one would like to see a bit mo[…]
[…]e. You had to do it no matter what you had. I learned very quickly the art of diplomacy and I was only 21. I learned very quickly that I could have a producer come in because the producers would walk into our office that started walking towards the union people walk into her office. Because that's w[…]
