[…]s Dougie Rae used to call it, Coast to Coast television. And so we were in a privileged position in a way but then, at the end of that period in '99, Sky had arrived, pay-TV had come and the landscape changed utterly so terrestrial broadcasting, of course, had to change as well during that period.&n[…]
[…]llection. My other recollection there is, is on one frosty morning it was the winter but it was a frosty day was white on the trees and a lovely blue sky in the steam from these locomotives and these hordes of Russian refugee is the whole thing just looked like Mother Russia and it was on the back l[…]
[…]inewood round about this time. But because of my experience in the Air Force, still mad on aeroplanes. The big picture coming out was reached for the sky. And I saw Lewis one day on the carpet. And I said, Oh, it was earlier than that. It was before I did, man in the moment. I said to him, whatever […]
[…]er it may be, but there is a demand now for the independent studio facility, and probably an increasing demand. I mean, there's going to be troubles. Sky and BSB both standing in front of mirror, cutting their own throats. Sky, sea of cut down their advertising department from 24 to 12. If I were wo[…]
[…] say, we immediately did the Sidney Devine show then the BBC guys asked me if I wanted to do the Edinburgh Mile so we did the Edinburgh Mile and then Sky phoned me so I never actually retired! I: No! That's more or less... R: And I was with Sky for fifteen years, I think. [31:34]I: Ye[…]
[…] happen now, that level of...SF: No, no. That, and it’s over, that phase of Channel Four is at an end.It’s a real shame.SF: It’s all over alas.Sorry, Sky.SF: I’m sorry.Quickly, what do you want? Sorry. [Interruption]SF: Are we out?Now we’re running again.SF: We’re running again now love.Yes. Anyway […]
[…]wasn’t he?Julia Cave: He was certainly a character. I remember once doing a terrible 34:00 thing to poor Gilbert, who liked to have a tot of whisky before going on. And there was always hospitality in the dressing-rooms at the television theatre, and I had to open a bottle of whisky and,[…]
[…]y life was saved in the most ridiculous way. The first trip I did was in a Halifax and the flight engineer was so ill being thrown around allover the sky he just sat there and he was not prepared to do any more work. It was the very first trip we had done from Leuchars in the middle of winter becaus[…]
[…]hool caught fire one night. He used to come into prayers in the morning with a black eye sometimes. We used to call him Bisto because the smell of whisky as he swept up the aisle was so strong. It was a very reputable school. SC: What were you doing at Maidenhead.CC: It was supposed to be an advance[…]
[…]e was the now we hadn't got any pictures of the bomb. We got the pictures of the bombers taking off. The bomb was taking off, silhouetted against the sky and taking off. 1000 bombers take off the bomb Budapest, and we got pictures of them arriving, coming back. But we hadn't got any pictures of the […]
