[…]enerous funding arrangement whereby the people who were responsible for the programming had absolutely no responsibility for generating the revenue. ITV was obliged to pay us a proportion of their revenues in exchange for being allowed to sell the airtime on Channel 4. So the separation between the […]
[…], I wasn't operational, I ran between the Guildhall where Michael Roberts did sound, to the Guildhall where David did sound. In between came various ATV bits in Wood Green, like the variety show that night. But I was around. There was a terrible thunderstorm. But the first programme that went out li[…]
[…]52. “With regard to this proposed Goons television show, I've elicited the basic idea hailed from Michael Bentine, when he was offered his own single TV show. With regard to the three other goons, Spike Milligan tells me was talked into it by Bentine but if I can get him out of it, he'd be grateful.[…]
[…]eter as well. I used to meet him regularly because he lived at Arkley, you know. And when we were - I was later in television, based at Elstree with ATV, I used to go via Arkley to my home in Finchley because I couldn't stand the main roads. At the end of the day we'd finished about six, I used to p[…]
[…] was a financial genius. She would say it’s no good Cartier selecting an expensive picture, I cannot pay for it.Norman Swallow: You never worked for ITVRudi Cartier: I never worked for ITV, I had many, many tempting offers, which always came back yes we will pay you more. Not one commercial, nothing[…]
[…]ere is, is what part of London television or London freelance? It's,Keith Ewart 27:28 oh, no, we're free. You are free, but we're on the ITV, agree with last people on the agreement has made with all the stations. I think we're the last people on it. But anyway, it's just we're on the on[…]
Derek Williams Side 1 Glyn Jones 0:00The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. The name of the interviewee is Derek Williams, Writer Director. The interviewer is Glyn Jones. The date is the first of May 2002. And this is side one. Have you had an e[…]
[…]ack again, and push them again, and so on until eventually, they came up with something that they knew they wanted a film in celebration of geeks and TV. And that was what I got. AndUnknown Speaker 11:36 that sets you off. AndPaddy Carey 11:39 I'm glad it did well, because it[…]
[…] the days of TWW, Television Wales in the West, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and the glamorous team that won the Harlech licence to broadcast ITV. And so for two years I produced what was called the Peter Williams Column in the programme paper for TWW, and I was absolutely wrong – actually wo[…]
