[…]ange of programmes and things and advertisements in between the programmes which were not happy for you And so she encouraged me to apply. Associated Rediffusion, who got the week time week day contract. So she encouraged me to apply to them. And I did so in the August and I got a job as a productio[…]
[…]TV is people think of after he left the BBC. But in actual fact, Tony Hancock started working on television. His first full series was for associated Rediffusion television in a programme called the Tony Hancock show. So there's a little bit of a story as to how that happened. So we talked a little […]
[…]‘Missions’ – in the book that I wrote – and actually they were missions that Jeremy Isaacs, who founded Channel Four, was my first boss at Associated Rediffusion, whatever, he used to send me out on missions when things were difficult, almost as a last resort he would say ‘Try and sort this out’. No[…]
[…]use for a couple of years but I'd also applied to ABC Television as Thames originally was, or it was, Thames was the merger of two companies, ABC and Rediffusion, and I had applied for a trainee Director's scheme that they ran, that ABC Television ran. It was for theatre directors actually but I was[…]
[…]did you climb up the art directing ladder then? PM: Well, the – with Fred Pusey, before television started, they had a company called Associated Rediffusion.DB: Yes. 20 minutes. PM: Future productions, I think they were and they were stockpiling. Little vignettes. Fifteen- or ten-minu[…]
[…]on television.Unknown Speaker 12:53 Yes,Unknown Speaker 12:55 I did a television with him, funnily enough at the beginning of rediffusion because my boss thought that he was marvellous Georgia and gave him a pilot and it was a john shabu show was Pins and Needles and Pins and[…]
[…]ys, it wasn't very much. And I went see my agent and he said oh it's ridiculous. So commercial television was just starting, so he ran up a friend in Rediffusion and he said, oh he's just sort of person you, you ought to have as script editor light entertainment, because he's done a lot of comedy an[…]
[…]n’t seem to get it right somehow, it took a long time for people…With The Bounty Theatre and…Yes.And ‘Coronation Street’?Yes, Street, yes.And things, Rediffusion…Yes. Which, which had been such a resounding success. And so they’d set up this, mm, glamorous serial about life in a glamorous… Well, all[…]
[…]sp;I can. Yeah, well, I was farmed out, you know, as a camera man for things like like this programme with Desmond Wilk, I forget what it was to seed Rediffusion I did two or three items for them. And, and in Kingsway in the studio, I shot some stuff there for for television in the early days. This […]
[…]ern Olympics’,[118] but I suppose I’ll come to that in a minute! So, then I did a record – I sang some songs on a record called Two Faces of Love for Rediffusion. I’d actually written a couple of songs, which I did on that, but mainly they were love songs that other people had written. And then that[…]
