[…]k the turning point came when Mrs. Thatcher had said there must bea quarter of the B.B.C.’s output must come from independents. And George and I, two seniorproducers in the department, were invited by Will to go to BAFTA, sit on the stage andanswer questions about what sort of things we felt we want[…]
[…]t said “It’s us you fool!” (laughs) and this portly gent was Duncan Woods - who later - ‘Steptoe and Son’ and all that stuff - and Duncan was a senior producer. So you can imagine a few drinks were taken there - and Bill Cotton Junior joined us - er - we had an evening - went home and I […]
[…]them. Well, I would do the initial sift and then those that had come from agents or anybody that had written before we sent out to what we called our senior readers who, one man called Gerrard Tyrrell, who’d been a playwright, and Eric Crozier, who was a librettist who had been a television producer[…]
[…]was quite a considerable ex-patriot, well not ex-patriot that's the wrong word, but foreign or emigre technicians at that time especially amongst the senior levels but that was a hangover from the Korda eraLK: YesRF: And so many people came in from GermanyLK: Well yes I remember Suschitzky[xxiv[…]
[…]s an under production secretary, and the official production secretary was Hippie... Hippie was Winifred Hipwell, who was, I suppose she was really a senior production secretary and had the ACT membership. And because it was a biggish picture for those days, I was the sort of, again, the dogsbody, s[…]
[…]men Dillon: Um...Sidney Cole: You must remember some of the pictures that you worked on at Denham.Carmen Dillon: Yes. It was interesting also for the seniors, a lot of them were put in the 'jug' very quickly, because they were Italian or something.Sidney Cole: Oh yes, I remember that. Right at the b[…]
