[…]…had a considerable part in the newsreel. Anyway, television…BBC Television reopened the following day, and the first film that went out, first programme that went out, was our obituary on King George VI. I have no idea how long it was. I would have thought it was about 15 to 20 mi[…]
[…]y chance or were you fairly selective, I mean to be more specific did you ever listen to some of the well relatively few some of those radio features programmes that were broadcast in the ‘30s. I mean you could have heard them by chance but in view of what you later did that might be I imagine not?P[…]
[…]if they originated plays or documentaries?DS: I don’t think so.JPH: No, no, no that a music hall, basically, wasn’t it?DS: Yes, it was a musical programme. I think it went out at twelve noon, it went out during the day.JPH: It was an hour of light music, basically, yes, from twelve to one, yes.[…]
[…]tton Jr: Most of them were, most of them stayedthere for a good time. They started to drop off obviouslyin the 60s, and in television, I produced his programmesfor 6 years on television and, I think it was 6 years, noit would be less than that, 4 or 5, about 5 years, and we used to introduce other m[…]
[…] about direction. A li ttle while ago I saw a programme about RKO Studios and they interviewed Katharine Hepburn whoÔÇÖs […]
[…]ybody as Pussy.
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There was a radio programme not so long ago with, in which your cousin would have – one of J Arthur’s daughters spoke about...
Oh. Oh Shelah, Shelagh wasn’t it, yes.[…]
[…]t period I was at Anglia, most of the time doing run of the mill jobs such as news and interviews, and occasional sort of insert for the for the news programmes.John Taylor 3:51 And that was on filmDudley Lovell 3:51 was it on tape on tape? And it was a new word entirely for […]
[…]in relationship with Hollywood, given the dollar 4 to thepound in those days, that would be $300,000 dollars which was quite an adequate averagefor a programme picture.Maurice Carter: But for a whole picture it was tightish, because they weren't quotaquickies by any means. For instance a quota quick[…]
[…], and that’s where they used to do Bandwagon from. And that’s where they used to refer as having their flat at Broadcasting House. Another programme I used to listen to was Monday Night at Eight… and I can remember Monday Night at Eight when it was Monday Night at Seven before they […]
[…] I found when we all worked together with about another 18 Johns years ago. But John started life in broadcasting with the BBC in radio in programme engineering, eventually became a studio manager and eventually a producer of radio, moved to the north to Manchester, did some television th[…]
