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[…]mins MW: And part of that DNA it seems to me might have been Jerry Kuehl because he went back to the First World War series, didn’t he, with the BBC. TD: Yes. MW: The Great War. Which surprised me because I reminded myself when I saw the programme again and there’s Jerry’s name on it.[…]

[…]s too low to be a good actor, but I was over Tony Garnett and Tom Courtenay, when I was at University College London, but I was quite a good producer-director. And I wanted to take that path, and in fact spent my first post-graduate job was with a touring theatre in Norway. A state touring theatre i[…]

[…]wn chairman apparently, or telling the other managing directors of ITV, he secretly tried to negotiate a deal where he could buy Dallas away from the BBC. Now in America you get the congressional medal of honour for stealing another show from somebody else, but in England what happened was that appa[…]

[…]; I didn’t stay with it for terribly long because the BBC asked me to go back and as I was getting rather fed up with… Back to what? To the BBC. To the BBC to do…? They wanted me to go back and take over from the woman who’d been running the actual use of the archives.  Arch[…]

[…]e that finished then. Finished then and I was, I think I'd finished. I was making a - I'd got a picture going at Elstree, at the Gate Studio, not the BBC. And I - that's right - yeah - that's it. Just before I was finished on 'Astonished Heart', Bert Easy came up to me and he said, "Look Len, they'v[…]

[…]hich is a very lousy company. And the financial department told Nigel Kneale the film rights belong to the BBC because you were under contract to the BBC. Nigel Kneale said I give up my contract, So he cancelled his contract and the Nigel Kneale stories belong to him.You ask what I think is most imp[…]

[…]oor of this pub I could hear myself playing the piano. I thought, I'm going crackers! But I wasn't, it was the same soundtrack being broadcast by the BBC.Roy Fowler: Extraordinary. And you recognised your touch?Eddie Dryhurst: Well I naturally recognised the tune right away and, I reckoned how funny[…]

[…]ply to the BBC in London. I thought of applying to independent television that was just starting in Plymouth under Peter Cadbury. Oh no, apply to the BBC. So I did on the rest is history. I joined in November 1960 Nick Gilbey  1:45  just before that. Then, was there anybody […]