[…] behind the throne was Lew Grade who I always found an agreeable person. Among other things he had this habit of summoning you to conferences at the ATV building at Marble Arch at 7.30 in the morning where he would be already smoking one of those enormous Havana cigars he was famous for. He didn't o[…]
[…]ondon and then I went freelance as an assistant and then after a year or so there's an out fit caslled Greengow?? an agency in Birmingham to service ATV. Do you have any recruiting editors.So that's my chance to become a full time editor. And I went up to Birmingham and spent 12 years there. At leas[…]
[…]d us in good stead for working. And so I got a job at the advertising agency in West End. And I was there for about a year or so into my got news of ITV opening in 55, September 55. So at the advertising agency, we got all the bumps coming in about the new ITV components. And a friend of mine who wo[…]
[…]idea. And I was sent to a school, St Edmonds, Hindhead. There was a rather eccentric headmaster called Ivor Bully who made us salute the cherry trees outside the front door. We would have to go round in a parade and salute this ridiculous tree. I thought he was crazy. The thing I remember about[…]
[…]very nice man ... I never met Rank; he didn't seem to appear ... but Captain Norman Walker. And the other day, just a few weeks ago, I noticed in the TV Times or the Radio Times that there was a film called Hard Steel on and I knew I was in it. I had no idea what I did in it. But I knew I was in it,[…]
