[…]en Manor was the most lovely house and he very much wanted to buy it, but he also very much wanted to have, as Jill I think once said in a television programme about Ealing, he wanted a little bit of England. And the house was owned by Hudson who was then the Minister of Agriculture, and an MP obvio[…]
[…] things I’d done was ‘All Our Yesterdays’ which was a programme which showed the newsreels of 25 years ago, introduced […]
[…] called Man One Family which was part of the denazification programme that was introduced into Germany. It was to expose […]
[…]lose by Northolt Aerodrome, and became Digital Media Services Division of Studios and Post-Production where we were concerned with… there wasn’t much programme making in the day-to-day business of broadcasting anymore, but more with digitising of archive collections and film restoration and transfer[…]
[…] seem to think they'd some kind of call on you if you were in a pub or something, you'd never get any peace, you know! Everybody had a view about the programmes! Even ones that, you know, you had nothing to do with! [08:39]I: So how did your career develop within STV? R: Well I started as […]
[…]d sang beautifully and composed songs. So I said, ‘What are you doing?’ She said, ‘Nothing,’ so I said, ‘Nor am I; shall we get together and devise a programme?’ Which we did; we devised a programme of poetry and music called The Lily and the Tiger, which was about the natural world. We did it quite[…]
[…]lled 'Trois Chansons de la Resistance'. Then there was a film Ivor directed for the OI called 'Iolan One Family' which was part of the denazification programme that was introduced into Germany. It was to expose the fallacy of Nazi racist philosophy and show that all race theories were total nonsense[…]
[…]ame out of the Navy just before the invasion, which was silly really. And then I got a job with Gaumont. Now, it was very highly paid and I had - the programme was arranged, the films - the three films I was going to make in the first year. 'House of One's Own' with James Mason, that was going to be[…]
[…]hen was and this was off the back of me having presented bulletins on Radio Scotland and, I beg your pardon, on Reporting Scotland, bulletins and the programme occasionally. I was told that it was Scott Ferguson's wife who had seen me doing these bulletins and said, "You should get him!" So, I think[…]
[…]lers Wells, this Was 1960, Norman Tucker whom I'd met before and didn't have a job for me on that occasion sent for me and said they were doing a new programme of operetta productions at the Wells, they hadn't done it before, well they'd done the Merry Widow but that was all. And they wanted a condu[…]
