[…]r correspondents, all their material was censored, definitely. Just aswe were in the Falklands with ITN. Every foot of it was censored and we were in Suez, the same,every foot had to go through the military sensor. It's hard to remember everything you didbecause you did so much. As a newsreel camera[…]
[…] like that, at eleven o'clock in the morning. And when the lights went up, who should I see sitting in front of me but Jack Holmes who was the senior director. And I thought, "Oh my God this is it," you know, [chuckles] it's like being found out for truancy, I mean it really was bad news! And as he […]
[…]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[…]
[…] and went to tactical film and said, well, there's your film, there's only one thing I've got to ask and that is that john hollows name remains on as director. And Ireally thought it was such an injustice and quiteapart from this would have been nonsan absurd to have my name martyrs. Who the hell wa[…]
[…]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&[…]
[…]roducer go out when I was 21 in six months or something, I think and I would like to suggest that I'm still the youngest creditor producer on network BBC. But then with that came this thing about me at that age with all so many, so many people who were much, much more experience. I mean, a lot of my[…]
[…]we had three current affairs programmes on free-to-air television every week: ‘World-in-Action’ on a Monday, ‘This Week’ on a Thursday, ‘Panorama’ on BBC. So that .. this was an important job, it was a programme I wanted to work for. And I noticed that Cliff Morgan had become editor of ‘This Week’,&[…]
[…]er?Speaker 2 34:23 Or did you ever get that close? I think must have a card, really.Unknown Speaker 34:30 He was producer and director.Unknown Speaker 34:31 Was he? Yes, he's a very nice man, and he always thought about the crew a lot. For instance, when we went o[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
