[…]on April 1st.We keep saying commercial television, but actually it was to a specific company was it?DS: Well no, because...Was it not?DS: No, because Rediffusion was the start of it. They started it and then joined immediately but what was Central before? John, come here please. When commercial […]
[…] they first started, and the other one was for Associated Rediffusion. So I thought, "I'm going to write another letter." […]
[…]he flyer and there were two addresses. One was for ABC, which was the name that ATV had when they first started, and the other one was for Associated Rediffusion. So I thought, "I'm going to write another letter." So on the way home I sketched out a letter on the train and wrote it out properly when[…]
[…]ght of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Today's subject Gerald chambers are senior floor manager with experience at AR TV Rediffusion television and London Weekend Television. Gerald is now retired. The interviewer is john P. Hamilton, a member of the committee. The date […]
[…]eference library there they recruited somebody to the staff who came to be shown round all the areas of the library and she had worked for Associated-Rediffusion which was the first independent television company and she had been reluctant to leave there but she had to widen her professional experie[…]
[…] to say that our programme was late. It was, I suppose, 11 o’clock, before we could get all those people together. Earlier in the evening Rediffusion had done a programme on ITV, and the Producer of that was Milton Shulman, and Milton had got together George Brown, that Canadian actor El[…]
[…] ones. And he's done a lot of drama stuff and we have remained friends down the years. He married a lovely girl called Nona Richards, who was a PA at Rediffusion later on, and sadly she died. quite young. And he has some gone on working like me, as long as the work is there is there, he's happy to d[…]
[…] the room, she had to go and sit with her friends in some separate place. And, as far as - I was going to say, as short a time ago as when I was with Rediffusion I remember I took a director to Simpson's to lunch and he hadn't got a tie on and we were refused admittance, because he hadn't got a tie […]
[…] Jones, who just retired from Fox British, met me one day, and I said, Oh, I'm job hunting. He said, Well, Fox Studios have been bought by associated Rediffusion. Write to them, and he said, I'll find the name of the man that you write to, which he did and I wrote, went up and saw them and sort of J[…]
[…] as short a time ago as when I was with Rediffusion I remember I took a director to Simpson's to […]
