[…]five minutes of getting there, I got a telephone call from the guests to tell me that I got the job. Anyhow, big numbers, the guests was the American director. Anyhow, later, when I really got to know him, I said, Well what happened to the other guy? And he said, Oh, I said he was there for a long t[…]
[…]didn't get that job, but the unit ganged up on me and quite rightly, they didn't want anybody in from the there'd been a palace revolution inside the BBC. And and the man who was in charge had got chucked out for being too pro Russian. The fools didn't in the foreign office didn't understand you say[…]
[…]essary for him as Michael barrier. He worked for me as a director when I was producing. I worked with him before I got my department of my own at the BBC. I don't know the amount of could have done that with Linda Wood 0:52Yes, it's very difficult role reversal. Can you also sort of expla[…]
[…]up there, I used to go up about once a month, this was all before the war, long before the war.LW: At Alexandra Palace.WT: No, just a room behind the BBC. A good long time before that, when was Alexandra PalaceDR: 1936WT: It was a good long while before that.DR: That would have been in his 30 line e[…]
[…]s Bill Salter with the pipe.Fred Tomlin: That's Bill Salter and this is um, what's the director's name? Oh...Marcel Varnel, this is Marcel Varnel the director.Bob Allen: Ah hmm. And the cameraman?Fred Tomlin: That's Arthur Crabtree.Bob Allen: Oh gracious! It is, yes?Fred Tomlin: And of course these […]
[…]e after GBI, yes, Roy, because I just to sort of read cap, to bring me up to date on it, we had our offices on the fifth floor. That was the managing director. Was just Davis, and there was a G Jackson script writer was Harold Goodwin, general production. Chap was Derek Dane, Eric or Derek Eric, Eri[…]
[…]and he doesn’t like women, and he really liked me, andHe was my patron, to me I think ... he got me out of the into being a Director in the BBC.I love him, love him.So, you know, I’m very fond of Ned, or was, as he’s now, asRENÉE GLYNNE: We’re drinking. Or I’m, I mean, you are not dri[…]
[…]was done in conjuction with the BBC concert Orchestra.AL: That was for Brent WalkerAlexander Faris: That was for Brent Walker in conjunction With the BBC. A united effort. It was a video, it went out On the box but was available as a Video.TD: You did other musicals, like Barmitzah Boy and Vivien El[…]
[…]ks, I think his name was, he was the same name as the actor...Sidney Cole: ...as the actor.Tilly Day: ...actor, yes. It was the New Zealand director...Sidney Cole: New Zealand director, was he?Tilly Day: Yes. He was the director of 'You must get Married' [actually, A. Leslie Pear[…]
[…]BC employment, if you so wish. After that, you can look around as opportunity occurs. There are very large number of staff postings internally in the BBC. In fact, most of the higher appointments are filled from their own staff. So if you get something which isn't ideal, there's no reason why you sh[…]
