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[…] I took a room in the Adelphi, just off The Strand. And I remember I paid half a crown a […]

[…]h series. He was a natural-history programme maker who had gone to Granada to actually make gardening programmes, and that was then a very successful strand on Channel 4. I poached Neil Cleminson from Granada to come to Flashback – he took quite a big step, but never regretted it. I hope I can say t[…]

[…] naval headquarters in Liverpool and told them that I was stranded in Bootle and could they do something about it? […]

[…]ell, that was a lot of money. You could live then for six or eight weeks on that, you know, at my age. And I took a room in the Adelphi, just off The Strand. And I remember I paid half a crown a week for it, and it had nothing in it whatever, not even a chair. And there was some water on the landing[…]

[…]this poet should know that, I don’t know, but he did. He phoned up Basil Wright, who was a leading documentary maker, and Basil phoned up the head of Strand Films, who said “come along and see me”. I must have a drink..Interviewer – Where were they based?Peter – The Strand were based at Merton Park,[…]

[…]herable] and by some fluke or other, I can't remember how I managed it, I got through to the naval headquarters in Liverpool and told them that I was stranded in Bootle and could they do something about it? I read them the signal, which seemed to do the work. Anyway, some hours later a Naval truck a[…]

[…]was the dreadnoughts, wasn’t it?Bill Girdlestone: They built the frames so that you could put another bar on it, so instead of having one set of strands you got double.Fowler/Lawson: Now, who was in charge of the studio lab? (Me.) You were in charge of the studio lab. And what was your rel[…]

[…] bar on it, so instead of having one set of strands you got double. Fowler/Lawson: Now, who was in charge […]