[…]me was ...There was an art directorwho worked at the BBC and one day he said to me “There’s a young actress who hasbeen in. She is going to do a programme called A for Andromeda. A young girl called Julie Christie. I am sure she would be right for your main girl Carol. So, he gave me […]
[…]s Cleverdon on what would now be radio three, I forget what it was called then, and Louis MacNeice .John Legard: They used to call it The Third Programme didn’t they?Jean Anderson: That’s right John, and I love radio, I still love it, would love to do more of it. I think nearly all actresses.J[…]
[…]Birch : Yes I remember that name too, I wish I could remember more.Alan Lawson : And then there was John Schlesinger too. He was one of the "Monitor" programme directors.Peter Birch : Yes, after I'd retired, and I'd left England and gone to the island, the BBC approached me there to do jobs for them[…]
[…]e Ministry of Works in the beginning of 1950 I think it was, yes at the beginning of 1950. And there I became a sort of a one-man band. We were doing programmes on allied subjects to the Ministry of Works, the building side of the Ministry of Works - the official way of producing concrete and the wa[…]
[…] ads in fact. Erm, he came in and did a programme at the end of the miner’s strike from the […]
[…] All the cinemas, they regularly ran two features in a programme and a shorter documentary, sometimes a stage show, and […]
[…]irs, Religion, Drama and Light Entertainment and they all demanded different skills. Now, looking back, it was, the Religious Department did a lot of programmes and, to be honest, none of the other Designers really wanted to do them because they weren't - and that was another great learning curve an[…]