[…]ears ago, and I’m talking…well three years ago…1990, the News Access Agreement was enforced again in this country, and by agreement between the BBC, ITV, and Sky, news access became possible to each others exclusive sporting events. And as a result of that, BBC News can now show the cricket in[…]
[…]that time: The Free Communications Group, which had started some years before; The 76 Group, which was an organisation of production staff from both ITV and the BBC, and that was amazingly the first occasion when I had ever met a counterpart of mine who worked in commercial television. I […]
[…]ght of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committee, […]
[…]one was furious because she’d made up her mind and said I want Daphne Shadwell and was absolutely furious, and I didn’t want to do the TV job. And the Appointments Officer sent for me with the Administrative... and they were so sweet and they said, ‘Daphne, you must go to television, […]
[…]in the Theatre Royal which is the home of Scottish opera, it's the biggest theatre, it became Scottish Television's headquarters when they opened up STV and then Scottish Opera took it over. It really is a huge theatre. And they used to do a thing called Stardust, a big charity concert every year an[…]
[…]nk who was put in charge of a Chinese prince t or whatever theyt re called and he trained him and taught him and eventually when he finished he said Itve now taught you everything I can think. You now go out into the world and make your own way but I give you this ring t and at the height of elation[…]
[…] together a consortium and they made a bid for Ulster TV and got it. Bill McQuitty became the chairman and […]
[…]hank you very much.VM: Thank you.JR: Not mentioned in Virginia’s account: the British Academy Award for Best Actress for A Town Like Alice; the BBC’s TV Award for Best Actress for Romeo and Juliet; the Belgian Prix Femina Award for Carve Her Name with Pride; the Variety Club’s Best Actress Award for[…]
[…]oadcast (television) because Broadcasting House was still holding the purse strings and television wasn’t very respectable, those damn sort of pseudo TV film boys up at Ally Pally, so they are part of the BBC but they didn’t really like us in those early days. I: Yes that was recent[…]
[…]member when people like, would have been Kenneth Adam came on, because I can't remember now quite the...Well Cecil McGivern was head of programmes on TV.Well Cecil, was Cecil McGivern before Cecil, well before Kenneth Adam, or were they both the same?Yes, yes. Yes.Was he?Yes.Well it must have been.L[…]
