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[…] quite the... Well Cecil McGivern was head of programmes on TV. Well Cecil, was Cecil McGivern before Cecil, well before […]

[…] [quietly] oh I’ve lost all the names. Terrible.MW: Well David Francis was one of the early ones.CJ: David had, he preceded me as the first TV officer; Liam O’Leary had preceded me as well as Acquisitions Officer. They – Liam fell out with Lindgren’s methodology – he was a bit more Langloi[…]

[…]re party to it in some fashion. The directors I mentioned George of course Bill Ward was there and Bill went on to enormous heights of course in the ATV in the Grade organization.  He had been a floor manager, he was a director by the time I got there working on light entertainment so call[…]

[…] ones. CJ: David had, he preceded me as the first TV officer; Liam O’Leary had preceded me as well as […]

[…] to the BBC because we wanted to see this Scottish TV programme on Livingst one. And when it was on […]

[…]yright of this recording is vested in the BECTU  history project. Today's subject Gerald chambers are senior floor manager with experience at AR TV Rediffusion television and London Weekend Television. Gerald is now retired. The interviewer is john P. Hamilton, a member of the committee. The da[…]

[…]Labour Party came from NATTKE. No question about that, to be fair, that was driven by the likes of Vincent Finer, Freddie Fabian, Freddie White, the ITV branches inside ITV and, there was a bit of caution even among some of our branches. But in the end, the more militant branches in the BBC did supp[…]

[…]ry V"?Dallas Bower  34:25 Yes I, Henry V came about in this way: after Munich I thought we were going to need "Henry V" and I'd done a TV script and I had in mind that Ralph, Ralph Richardson might do it.  During the war while at the MoI I thought why don't I work on this 'c[…]

[…]restricted [inaudible]. Yah, yah. So it’s a different thing. But I do think that, you know, the... I suppose the people that are coming up through TV are getting that kind of training probably. Well they were with the dismantlement of the ITV companies. Yah. Yah. And the BBC, there won’t[…]

[…]I suppose that’s what made me feel a bit kind of fidgety but I mean nobody could believe that the BBC would pay me more.  In general categories ITV paid much more but not in the libraries area.SUE MALDEN:  So David Martin was the sort of key management person to make a decision.ANNE HANFOR[…]