[…]t want more people to go, they were losing left right and centre, they were losing peopleRF: The people that Rediffusion was recruiting were they all BBC.BH: Ex-BBC except for the directors which, they were getting from the film business. And they soon realised that they just could not cope with con[…]
[…]t with Princess Margaret to Africa, to East Africa, to West Africa. For months, I went to Egypt. I got deported from Egypt, and I went back again for Suez.Speaker 1  40:36  I went to Ethiopia with the Hillier Selassie. Stayed with him, you know, for a little country boy from Bedford, have […]
[…]levision. Well, interestingly, I we only had BBC One we didn't have and we then got BBC Two when it started. And so the only thing we could watch was BBC. And I got really into at a young age, the Wednesday plays and play for today. And I saw, I saw Kathy come home, going out, when it went out, wher[…]
[…]der 100,000 pounds in those days. So we progress Oh, this is a skate over this. The red rasa. The red tent was Kara touch soft was a very big Russian director. In fact, it was a Russian Italian co production and had been shooting it for about 18 months when I went on. On an off site. I mean, as far […]
[…] was really interesting and I asked whether I could borrow it and he said yes and I bought a couple of films of Kodachrome 8mm and tried it out and found I really liked it and got involved from that point. I them obviously had to find a job and having got interested in it I thought I would check and[…]
[…]actually better remunerated. There was more, in those days I think the sort of rule of thumb was a job at STV seemed to pay half as much again as the BBC. That was the kind of trade-off so everybody that was good anywhere else in the industry very quickly ended up coming into ITV, BBC, well ITV, ITN[…]
[…]ry start of your life. RS: Right. MW: Because I think in all cases we like to know about the colour, flavour, texture and so on, and background of peoples’ careers. So tell us where you were born, where you grew up, and something about your education. RS: Okay. I was born in 1948 in I[…]
[…] I wanted to do, I went to St. Martin's for evening classes on set design and actually it's Steven Bundy, I just remember his name, he worked for the BBC. Do you remember him? No..? [laughing] He was a set designer and so I did a year of that so the I had that behind me so I started going... I appli[…]
