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[…] Bari, to try and deal with SOE – Special Operations Executive – who were a bit out of hand and […]

[…]during that period I think I made the Dispute programme, and I made two documentaries outside - or was it three? - I made one called Wall Street for ATV, which was totally a montage documentary with just a narrator linking. NS That’d be for Bob Heller, would it? JG For Bob Heller, who was […]

[…] major star - came over to England to do a TV series. And I suppose I was quite proud of […]

[…]burning thing and you was bitten from top to bottom with lice and things because it was full of things. Then you got to the end, I think it was to Pontville we went up as far as and then we got off this and you crossed on this pontoon with the tracks then we went with the tracks to this camp that wa[…]

[…] the Boat enormously when I was the first producer to say look, this is crazy right and why we just keep talking about the BBC. I mean, people watch ITV you know, why can't really talk about ITV. They said all right. So it was very funny because the head of presentation guy called Rex Morford was so[…]

[…]s a result of which I got asked to do, and then (by now I was I was in my fourth or fifth year now at the BBC) and I then got asked to do Hamlet for ITV and I couldn't because I was under contract to BBC. And it was Dr. Richard. Richard Chamberlain. Yeah, he was gonna do Hamlet. Yeah. And he asked m[…]

[…]t for Dallas with the Americans, the price was going up. So, without telling his own chairman apparently, or telling the other managing directors of ITV, he secretly tried to negotiate a deal where he could buy Dallas away from the BBC. Now in America you get the congressional medal of honour for st[…]

[…]e chair of the committee. They elected me the chair of the committee. I came off the council and continued until 1979 to come to general council and ITV division. And then, after the long three month, ITV strike in 79 I think it was then that I got on a standing orders committee. Yes, the standing o[…]

[…] John Howard Davies - who is now of course an executive and not quite the same size - a day […]