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[…]ey said, Would I like to join their projection team? And at that particular time, well, for some time, actually, I was never very keen on joining the BBC. I always preferred to work for a smaller company, but my wife persuaded me to go for the interview and take the job. So I rang up my friends and […]

[…]V fed into that was always, well, we'll show them! We'll show them that we're good enough to do it! So, it's like having this monolith next door. The BBC. It's always, I always enjoyed beating the BBC, showing them up for their slowness, their pomposity, it's almost a chipiness that I think comes ma[…]

[…]e good actors like Edwin Williams and Alex Clunes and those sort-of people really loved the whole idea because he was a director’s actor, and actor’s director. So, erm, ah…then I did ah….in the open-air theatre I did er…The Winter’s Tale and played Vermillious, and actually got a notice for that in […]

[…]ge 13hierarchical view, mechanistic view of life and the way it works. You could see both his strengths and his weaknesses in what he did at the BBC. I think the BBC owes him a lot, Ithink that he... it is arguable that if John hadn’t done what he did, the BBC would not still be funded by […]

[…]s no way of getting in anywhere, and finally, I was out of work for six months, and then I would get on a film.  By this time I was an assistant director.  I had tried everything, I had been a third, I had been a second. For a few minutes I had been a first, but the electrician, on the fil[…]

[…]ell I don't know, there was but I was there and I was with an American art director named Bob Haass who was a personal friend. He was a Universal art director. And I mean it was just everybody who was in the room decided what they were going to do and they joined. And it was just like that!Rodney Gi[…]