[…]sp;I: And when you were a child were there any, what were your kind of hobbies and interests? Did you have any hobbies that would lead you in towards television? R: Yeah. Well, not necessarily television but certainly media. I used to, I joined the St. Andrew's, when I was about thirteen I join[…]
[…]his people realised that it was Jeremy Isaacs, not Jeremy Irons. They contacted him. Jeremy was at that point Chief Executive of the Opera House, The Royal Opera House, in Covent Garden and didn’t want to go back into television, was absolutely agin it but was eventually persuaded. Ted Turner when h[…]
[…]t was finished, devoted the whole of - was it called, Tonight, the seven o'clock programme?Rodney Giesler: I saw it, yeah.John Krish: They got RoSPA [Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents] in, a man from RoSPA. They wanted me to go and defend it and I said, "I have nothing to defend. If you […]
[…]ople, then you had to double up on the amount of lights. And that caused shadows too. The sound people, of course became the immediate. They were the royalty. There was a man called Scanlon, I remember. And they thought that everything should be dedicated to them. And they were always getting if, if[…]
[…] Went in to editing, I was the programme editor on it, finally became a trainee Director and moved on from there. I: And this was in the Theatre Royal? R: This was in the Theatre Royal. The Theatre Royal was one of Glasgow's great music halls and had been there for more than a hundred year[…]
[…] they did. So it was controversial. Erm, I think erm, the actual period, I mean the film came out in ‘81, so you’ve got the Falklands War, you’ve got Royal weddings, I remember working through the Royal weddings and whatever, but we were basically in a little room with telephones, I mean there was n[…]
[…] decided that this was somehow enough and I didn’t continue. I didn’t stay with Thames. But I had an offer. I had an offer from The Royal College of Art. And we had just started our family and I realised that this really at that stage wasn’t a life for me anymore, but I loved[…]
[…]aken. So I did that. And actually interesting enough the first time I the first job I did within effects was I'd moved from Alexandra Palace, down to Television Centre because news had moved. And the first thing Jack did was sent me back to Alexandra Palace, which was easier to get to because I live[…]
[…]d today is the 28th [May, 2017]. So there we go. We've identified the tape. So where did your background, what was your background before you came to television and where were you, first of all, where were you born? Let's start with that. R: I was born and brought up in Paisley, went to Paisley[…]
    EXTRACT: On losing the job of a lifetime:-"I said a permanent job in films or television would be like winning the pools - any kind of a job, I’d be grateful. I suddenly got a phone call one day to see this guy called Ward Thomas, so I go traipsing down to this place beh[…]
