[…]t we actually ran a competition to name the new programme, and the most popular one was Top Gear. This was a very long time before Top Gear the TV programme was ever even heard of. But it was called Top Gear and it was the first time of Top Gear, which came back later in 1967 with […]
John Frame [Start of Recording] [00:00]I: This is John Frame. I'm Tim Amyes. This is the 20th May [2017] and he was employed with STV between 1964... R: 1964 till 1992. In September. 17th. It's OK. I: So, John, where were you born? R: I was born in a lovely little village ca[…]
[…]is interesting when you look at the credits, there are only five names on that film. And now you look at the credits of any sort of film that goes on TV, you've got the lavatory cleaner and the bookkeeper and everybody else! [Laughing] The credits are almost as long as the film!John Legard: And not […]
[…]ave Bristol initially and go to Leeds, or- TD: No. It was going to be fairly tricky getting into television as a researcher, particularly in an ITV company, where at that sort of level you are going to need a union ticket, an ACTT ticket, so my very first job was at the Imperial War Museum Film[…]
[…]e I... The BBC shot film of Concorde being built and everything, which I was on... I loved working for the Beeb... I know it was laughed at by people outside, but it was a permanent job, and a pension at the end...DB. It was Concorde, and not the Comet...? I'ni just thinking that the time doesn't se[…]
[…]in the beginning of the television but they mean 55', they don't realise it had been going 10 years before they joined.RF: Yes from the beginning of ITV. 8. More on Lime GroveRF: Do you remember how long each day the station was on the air, there are two stations now, right, they're transmittin[…]
[…] interference, not within the BBC, but without the BBC… from outside the BBC… on the governors, sort of thing… Julia […]
[…]w, it was nice to have the letter.Yes, yes.I’ve got the letters.The other consistent thing is you always worked for The BBC, you never worked for an ITV company.No.Were you ever tempted to, I mean so many people did during that time?No, I wasn’t tempted to.Never thought of it?Well, I considered it. […]
[…]right. JustUnknown Speaker 14:47 repeat things when you're on the final.Edward Williams 14:51 No, that's quite true. And to NDTV it's quite a difficult judgement or certainly was in those days very much more difficult judgement that is to make now I mean, since you didn't rea[…]
[…]dy. R: Right. OK. I2: That's fine. I think we are there. I: Right! Totally informal. Relaxed. Adam Fullarton, when did you start with STV? R: I think I started in 1962. I: Right. This interviewer, John Frame, and, first of all, Adam, before you came to STV, what was your, ki[…]
