Richard (Dickie) Best

[…] deciding, atthe age of 15 deciding what to do when I left school there were threechoices, films, theatre or the BBC. Not acting, appearing but on theproduction side. Films where always favourite. theatre was a lot of nightwork which I didn't fancy and the BBC was a third choice if everythingelse fa[…]

Cyril Page

[…] pack me bags and go. But Ernie Garside was the Production Manager and he used to wire or phone up the...the […]

Elizabeth (Liz) Bale

[…]in the canteen, everybody sat with everybody. They weren't, you know, once you knew them, and you it was just very stimulating. And lots of ideas and production staff, everybody was there together sort of thing, Nick Gilbey  31:28  choosing so they weren't sort of all techni[…]

Rob Woodward

[…]to outperform the ITV Network in Scotland, others are looking at the performance of our digital businesses and then we have two KPI's which cover our Production business. Basically, we've kind of, we, it's a mixed bag and it always has been and I expect it to be a mixed bag! If we hit every KPI ever[…]

Bernard Ponsonby

[…]ink card which, sort of, opened out and you would get little titles like Directors. In those days there were quite a number of them and you would get Production Assistants and there were quite a number of them and my job for the first year was a researcher working on the then political programme, Sc[…]

Phil Windeatt

[…]at Channel 4 was starting in 1982 and I saw an, and companies were just starting up and employing thirty people in one go and one of them was Diverse Production in Olympia although then they were based just off Oxford Street. And David Graham was a producer/director from Panorama and Jeremy Isaacs w[…]

Interview

[…]med into the home of Dorian and Brian Marshall, who both had long careers in the film and TV industry. This interview is with Dorie Marshall, who was production secretary for many years, and the interviewer is, is afterwards. So Doreen, thank you for having us. Could you? Let's go right from the sta[…]

Peter Stuart Mullins

[…]M: Well, the – with Fred Pusey, before television started, they had a company called Associated Rediffusion.DB: Yes. 20 minutes. PM: Future productions, I think they were and they were stockpiling. Little vignettes. Fifteen- or ten-minute little episodes. Something to put on the television[…]

Pete Murray

[…] a new one on meMIKE DICK: I shall go and have a look at the film again … The other interesting one I thought was quite interesting, you did a BBC TV production in ’46 of Jane EyrePETE MURRAY:  Of what?MIKE DICK:  Jane Eyre.  Jane Eyre?PETE MURRAY:  No.        […]

Harry Fowler

[…]n the Thames by Jack Warner.” Now every job that comes up is abroad. Shall we come back, because I’ve got a good story about an American, a Hollywood production?McG: Go on, tell us.HF: Well how it came up, Maude Spector again, who put me in Pickwick Papers, she said “I’ve got one for you, a nice job[…]
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