[…]st crossed on all this. And we felt that it should be this kind of, there was some possibility that it was possible occasionally to get film shown on BBC. And he was aware of this, but he wouldn't push it at all. I said, Look, let's just show. It wasn't given on someone like this. And I want to show[…]
[…]n’t have the knowledge to argue, I mean I could argue about left and right but no way could I sort of say well that was a terrible performance to the director. Also directors actually in those days were really, they were far better trained technically than they are today, I mean they didn’t come on […]
[…]being reduced to voices, and then finally they were an anonymous voice, which was a just a linking narrator, of which I did a couple, but not for the BBC. I mean Dispute was done like that, but that was a strange mixture because I actually had the protagonists talking to camera, as a sort of linking[…]
[…] as it were, as an as an actor, and behind the scenes doing all sorts of things. And it got on the on my end of turn, reporter would like to join the BBC. No, I never read that. So when I actually went to law gave this to whoever was interviewing me at the time. So it was sort of helpful, wasn't it?[…]
[…]r that one and it was the car I had in fact when Sally and I first got married. I might say I went down the scale after that, at one stage during the Suez Crisis I had a Ford Thames van. Roy Fowler 8:07 Don't you wish that you had that Jaguar SS though? Jonathan Balcon&nbs[…]
[…] I was offered a job as assistant dubbing mixer at Lady Ewell's British National. And the same time I'd applied for as assistant recorders job with a BBC. And the two things happen together. And it really was a crossroads because the British National came up said look, we want you to take the job. A[…]
[…]up there, I used to go up about once a month, this was all before the war, long before the war.LW: At Alexandra Palace.WT: No, just a room behind the BBC. A good long time before that, when was Alexandra PalaceDR: 1936WT: It was a good long while before that.DR: That would have been in his 30 line e[…]
[…]y actually, you know, I would like to, you know, I like to doing it because I know I can do it better. And, you know, one, obviously, one helps every director. Ones with, to a certain extent. When one has a, you know, one's obviously bubbling over the idea. Someone tells an idea. So if one, you know[…]
[…]five minutes of getting there, I got a telephone call from the guests to tell me that I got the job. Anyhow, big numbers, the guests was the American director. Anyhow, later, when I really got to know him, I said, Well what happened to the other guy? And he said, Oh, I said he was there for a long t[…]
