[…]could come up with many! I could come up with many! There was a wonderful Hogmanay show once, live, and somebody had the bright idea to bring on as a special guest Hercules the Bear. Now, I don't know if you remember Hercules. Andy, I think, was his owner, was the name of the owner. He was quite fam[…]
[…] satisfaction you get out of doing it. So, out of that era was born Scottish Passport, the Home Show, get it on, a whole load of, again ticking those Special Interest programmes. And the fantastic thing was - and I will never forget it and I am probably the only person on the planet who does remembe[…]
[…]ewcastle. And I was still very excited, I was thinking this is fantastic, you know, and I walked in at the end, and there was no applause. This was a special screening for councillors and people in Consett, and so on. And as I walked in, I heard someone shout, "Shoot her", and someone else went "Ban[…]
[…]over to Arnold Bolker who also found it stressful and had a nervous breakdown, so I took over as Acting Editor. I was finishing a This Week 90-minute special on NI, had just put it out when Richard Nixon resigned and we had to do a 90-minute special on that. I took over This Week in 74 and stayed th[…]
[…] - it was set in a revolutionary country in South America - as a young boy called Cholo. And I got the part because I obviously look Latin American, especially in lots of khaki uniforms, carrying guns. I was so totally undisciplined that, on set, not realising when in those days where you've lined u[…]
[…]oks on early cinemas in the country virtually you know.Yes. Well as I say the Roxy where I worked was a lovely cinema in Ross Colford of course has a special place in my heart. Cinderford? I never new as a cinema but a friend of mine bought and reopened in the club for many years.And a friend bought[…]
[…]because also at the meeting were Sid Cole and George Elvyn and, and whenthe meeting was over they said ‘Are you going home now’? And I said ‘No, not especially’. And they said ‘Well we’re going to see the new film at the new gallery inRegent Street, why don't you come along’? So along I went with th[…]
[…]re shooting Fires Were Started, they were on the roof at night, reconstructing a raid, fire, and he'd been absolutely impossible to the entire unit, especially to the continuity girl. And on the way down to the ground, via a fire escape, an iron fire escape, the continuity girl went ahead of him and[…]
