[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]obson’s Choice. David Lean had been in touch with me to work for him on – again based on Shepperton although it was allPeter Handford AMPS.Doc 13made outside the studio it was organised through Shepperton – Summer Madness also sometimes called Summertime with Katherine Hepburn in Venice. That was in[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] i nformation. 20:00 RAF taught me good electronics, useful in TV career. Last posting was near Nottingham, fighter control centre, […]
[…]or the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's Oral History project. The interviewer is Janet McBain, the date is 14th July 2018 and the place is the STV's studio in Glasgow. The copyright of this recording is vested in the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group. We will start at the very beginning. Yo[…]
[…]:02 got a job ultimately at the human loss side probation service. Out on the patch, which was a little bit it was one of the worst crime rates outside of London. But would you believe next door to where I work, the Halle orchestra used to practice so quite often I would end up having lunches […]
[…] unit, which of course, is a very pleasant and interesting experience. But it often meant that we had to break our films into two units, one shooting outside America and one shooting within America, which has certain disadvantages. And even the director in America had to pretend that he was an advis[…]
[…]ent had gone by the time I'd left. Gone five years earlier because I absorbed Film Department into Operations. And yes, I was, I ran the studios, the Outside Broadcast Department and what was left of Film Unit. I was the last of the film units as such to have a film unit and it's still in Pebb[…]
[…]hey exposed. And there he was, and all the other lights in the area just came in, and the night fighters latched on. That was a general idea that was outside in the New Forest behind Christchurch. And then after that, I was transferred to Remy and sent to the Military College of Science for a six mo[…]
