Search Results for: Suez 1956. BBC. Director. UN Media Peace Prize Certificate of Merit (1980)

[…] Sydney moved to Pinewood, Shepherd's Bush was sold to the BBC. Um, I was sent to Islington to close it down, […]

[…] politicians in the 1950s; Royal tours; West Indies; Africa; Egypt, Suez; Ethiopia; Haile Selassie 8 section time year side 1 […]

[…] on some tests for Alan Dwan on a picture called Suez with Tyrone Power and Annbella, it was a very […]

[…] 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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…] 61drunks, the fourth wasn't. But because John Mitchell was writing, he was a good writer, he wanted to go by boat and, of course, it was round about Suez time so he took a long time to get there and obviously on the tramps he started drinking again. And, in fact, in the hotel, the unit stayed eithe[…]

[…]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 that far! Roy Fowler: What happened? Do you know the details? Andy Worker: Well Sydney moved to Pinewood, Shepherd's Bush was sold to the BBC. Um, I was sent to Islington to close it down, and after about a year of that, Ken Maybank [?] said, "You should go on freelance production," whic[…]