[…]ed by Bob Arnold, who played it in those days. And I think they're about the only three original members of the cast that are still there. One of the programme engineers that we used was a man called Tony Shrine, who later became a producer, and was involved in various quiz games thought up by him a[…]
[…] Queen Mary, for some charitable thing, and I dropped my programme, and I missed my line. My one line that […]
[…]him. I then, after about, I think it was after about two years I was made a Producer at Granada and I spent two years producing the Six O' Clock News programme, Monday to Friday. That was a great learning curve as well. It was just a great experience. Mondays were always terrifying but by Friday you[…]
[…] had reached a certain level of education were allowed to join it so as a third exclusive little club and we had very good films and I used to do the programmes write all the material and do all the posters and stuff. This it sort of took over my life really at that point and when I left until final[…]
[…]and I can. And it was a lovely part, and I went to the opening night, it was a big night with Queen Mary, for some charitable thing, and I dropped my programme, and I missed my line. My one line that was left in was just “Oh what a lovely Scotsman”. Everything else was cut out. They’d overshot. And […]
[…]ch although it did quite a lot of natural history work, I didn't get involved in that too much. I was much more on the local news and current affairs programmes. So that the main area of change was that the production team, I mean the technicians, always were fairly skilled in their craft, but so we[…]
[…] very funny review which was on every summer. And I suppose that's a great influence on me because I used to go to them every time they changed their programme, I used to go to that. And I remember Stanley Baxter used to say to me years and years later when our paths crossed and I asked him to come […]
[…] P Hamilton Absolutely! I totally agree. I did every television programme, whether it was an outside broadcast or a play, […]
[…]o everything, taught me what was going on, taught me about the music, he was the most amazing and wonderful benefactor really.Norman Swallow: Did the programmes come from Bush House at this time?Julia Cave: By this time, no, for the Suez crisis were still in Oxford Street. I thing we were. We […]
[…]e principal that not everyone turns up for every show, we felt that 1000 was a realistic new ceiling for membership numbers as well as allowing us to programme loads of extra shows for the same old membership fee level. The bonus in Year One of our expansion drive was that we still had funds left ov[…]
