[…]d…One thing I remember.Mm.And I didn’t really see it in its full strength until I went to ITV much later on…No, yes.Was the enormous resources of The BBC.Oh yes.In every department you could think of.Yes.Music.Yes.Research, mm, mm, libraries.Mm, the lot, yes.Engineering.Yes.I mean everything you can[…]
[…] I might not put down the exact thing that I'd had to pay for, I was only recovering money I'd spent on behalf of Movietone - a lot like later in the BBC. Reno Wideson was shattered to find that that was my belief. And I never really tried to con them over expenses, or anything. And it annoyed me pa[…]
[…] Er I...I asked you...Any particularly memorable coverages? Cyril Page: Well, Suez was one. Er... Alan Lawson: Yes... Cyril Page: We […]
[…] should add he wasn't getting on very well with the director. At the rehearsal stage I think things had not gone […]
[…]r radar side, he was an absolute BrainBox. Very, very clever. And we both got demobbed more or less at the same time, I managed to get a job with the BBC. And Gordon went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both we[…]
[…]on: Yeah, yeah...Cyril Page: Yeah.[Break in recording]Alan Lawson: Right. Er I...I asked you...Any particularly memorable coverages?Cyril Page: Well, Suez was one. Er...Alan Lawson: Yes...Cyril Page: We were allocated er when the Suez started. Er...There was er...We had to fly to Cyprus. I...I went […]
[…]ilms I think is the same. So, at this stage I Arthur was an I left freelance to fend for ourselves. I by this time that got married. I was married in 1956. And just before we leave film partnership I'm eternally grateful to Michael John's because his wife, Margaret, and my wife, Jean, were young gir[…]
[…] in their example. SR By the time you went to university did you already have an idea of what sort […]
[…]nd said, "Right, John, come back when you want to." And that, actually, was the kind of the ultimate in familyness. And I wouldn't have found that at BBC. I'm positive! Because one of my colleagues, ex-colleagues, unfortunately she had a bad relationship which went AWOL and, although we tried to sto[…]
