[…]r films like Captain Blood [N.B. Actually, Colonel Blood] and things like that. And then subsequently of course he went from there when obviously the programme wasn't going to work out, to Warner Brothers where he was very successful with the Max Miller films and God knows what. So that was that. Bu[…]
[…] and then it would be under enormous supervision, or even longer, because so much was coming in to an editor, it was very rare he’d be doing just one programme, they may be doing a documentary, or someone may say, ‘well look, we’ve got these five shots that we need to put together for Woman’s […]
[…]h, to Vienna, and all over, Berlin, coming back with tapes, quarter inch tapes of the Blue Danube, etc. And his wife had heard something on the Third Programme, [now BBC Radio 3] this [György] Ligeti thing, this strange noise theyused for the obelisk cube, and there was in great letters across it no[…]
[…]n Announcer and I was told to go and see Mr Thomson. Now, Mr Thomson was the man that owned it all and I had heard of Ray Purdie, who was Director of Programmes, but I'd never heard of Mr Thomson. Well, I'd heard of him but just vaguely. I hadn't realised how powerful he was and he said, "Jim, I lik[…]
[…]ddy Darvas/Dave Robson Duration: 00:57:01[00:00:00]The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. The subject is Liz Forgan, Programme Commissioner for Television and Radio, interviewed by Teddy Darvas, the date is the twenty-fourth of January 2001. This is side one, file 49[…]
[…] practically everyone came along. And we had a final mock programme!I: Was this the first time you'd been in a […]
[…] so that was in the mid seventies so they broadcast in black and white to all the schools in Glasgow. They had two production studios where they made programmes dedicated for that. They had a Film Department. John Gow worked there, as did Steve Beck so there's a lot of people that I know through the[…]
[…]e worked on productions including Hamlet (1947) andMacbeth (1949).4 Patricia Foy (1922-2006) was a British producer and dance for programmes including The Magic of Dance(1979) and The Margot Fonteyn Story (1989). I: And were you still living at home at th[…]
