[…]s it was a great reward for what we were doing.Stephen Peet  28:34  Yeah, now, I, my second or extended contract came to an end in early in 1956. I think the few of us who had started getting we'd had a single three year contract, and then an extension, I believe you were the same. And tha[…]
Author: Melanie Williams, (School of Art, Media & America Studies, University of East Anglia)  Screen costume has now been firmly established […]
[…]eah. R: I was born in Grangemouth in 1948 so I'm not local to Glasgow but I've tended to veer more to the East coast because I went to Edinburgh University so, apart from a period in Manchester, I've lived in Edinburgh for most of my life. I: So you were brought up in Grangemouth? R: […]
[…]ple they’re quite insane. I was doing those things in-between and also doing, it was actually into the 80s I started doing a lot of work for the BBC. The BBC asked me to do a little Drama thing which was called Person to Personabout a bicycle company which they actually wanted to use for t[…]
[…]..Alan Lawson: Was it Sandy McPherson?David Robson: No, it was - Jimmy Bell, Jimmy Bell. And we used to do a broadcast from there once a week for the BBC. And one day, in the mornings this was - the cleaners had to be dead quiet during the half an hour transmission - and there was a cue system. They[…]
[…]fortnight's notice, because I was under contract of course, but all the staff had a fortnight's notice and out! As simple as that! It was sold to the BBC. Yes that's how that - she got fed-up with it! Annoyed with Lou Jackson, annoyed with me, for not telling her the stories.Roy Fowler: So it a[…]
[…]bsp;girl.Hitch got into disfavour. He brought one of the Armours back,Wilfred as Art Director. Wilfred claimed me andHitch was strong and he got me. and then he got&[…]
[…] situation he was in – he felt his function was to keep costs down and just be tough about money generally.AL: Did you work with him when he became a director.SC: No. He didn't make anything very distinguished – mainly quota quickies which a lot of directors did in those days.AL: You've mentioned St[…]
[…]es you then worked on A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Peter Hall, which I believe was one of his early films… obviously being a theatre director.  As a theatre director, how did Peter, sort of, approach that film? And were there any special instructions …PS: Yes, it was a tri[…]
[…]ly with Donald Dewar who was the big Labour figure of the era and so we always managed to get the services of Donald Dewar on programmes ahead of the BBC. I was quite friendly - I'll rephrase that - I knew Alex Salmond quite well. Friendly would be over-stating it. And he would always, for example o[…]
