[…]rectors, and he opened the door and introduce me as Hello everyone, this is Marge. And she's been put in here to soil out where you can imagine I was Public Enemy. Number one, nobody wants to go to lunch with me. Eventually, it'll come down. But all I did in them was to get them to do an a4 Page of […]
[…]formation bit, you did the education bit. And then the entertainment, of course,Speaker 2 33:26 I mean, we've all we've we were obviously public service broadcasting at its best,Speaker 1 33:31 and what reach to the programmes have? Well, the researchSpeaker 2 33:35 &nb[…]
[…]ting graduate course so although I was a physicist and scientist, I really didn’t want to be a researcher so I also wanted to do something that had a public facing front. So, I joined the marketing graduate scheme, and…SS: Was this in London?PC: This was in London, yes, I went to University in Birmi[…]
[…]l actions against ITV, the Pearl and Dean issue, a question mark over for were we going through a systemic decline in the position of the free-to-air public service broadcasting, you know, the list goes on! They were pretty serious issues for any investor so we needed to, basically, whittle those do[…]
[…]pen bid, the people who, I remember someone who was interested in a license and went to interviews and things and was told, which had never been made public, that one way and another this would be the last opportunity. Now, that may well have changed a few people's attitude if they had known that bu[…]
[…]n't like being cynical. I: But that's what STV is. It is a business, isn't it? It's not a cultural broadcaster like the BBC. R: Oh they had public service broadcasts or they did have, more so in my day, they did have a remit to do that. But, yeah, I don't think to the best of my knowledge,[…]
[…]ctory farms and also in America, right across the States. And that film had its world premiere at the London Film Festival in 1981. Sold out. Massive publicity. Great reviews. We were exhausted because we had, I had, I was signing on, or was, you know, very little money involved. And why did th[…]
[…]nd to a ... In those days,once again it was in the fifties, it was quite common for people if they had a decent garden they used to open it up to the public for afternoon tea. [TIME 00.06.53] I mean it wasn’t a shop or anything, it was just people did it and you went along and had cream buns an[…]