[…]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[…]
[…]sp;0:07 Okay. The copyright of this recording is vested in the British entertainment history project.Okay, good thing. Today is Monday 20th of June 2016. The interviewee is Howard Lanning, president of the British cinema and television veterans, the interviewer is Derek Threadgall. And the cam[…]
[…] a deal where he could buy Dallas away from the BBC. Now in America you get the congressional medal of honour […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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.[…]
[…]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[…]
