[…]sonally treasure most is being a Freeman of the City in which I live, Freeman of the City of Canterbury, which followed the MBE I got for services to television and the arts. And the City recognised that as well. And I think there’s possibly no greater honour than being recognised by the people with[…]
[…]atthews used to go through everything, I never did anything without writing a part for him. And Arthur Hill who later went over to become quite a big television name in America.RF: You must have some stories about A. E. Matthews.VG: Yes, Matty was a fabulous character, a lovable old man, he became a[…]
[…]strange character, there's a wonderful story about Ventney who was very egotistical. A long time after the war I was in Rome and I was a guest of RAI television people there film department and I told them I'd worked for Ventney and they said that's rather funny because during the war when the Ameri[…]
[…]p; Copyright is vested in the ACTT History Project. Norman Swallow, television producer, author, interviewers Alan Lawson and Stephen Peet, recorded on 31 January 1990,SIDE 1, TA[…]
[…] how my interest started. I've got two sisters, Sarah and Vanessa, who, who one of them still is an actress. And Vanessa is now become a writer and a television presenter, and a brother who's a painter. I tried to persuade them all to get into sort of home movies. And that's really where it all star[…]
[…]an if it was for the cinemas or because those days we were making shows for the cinema that we were still in that era. Or if it was something big for television which we were doing. I mean we were making programmes for television the sponsored programmes. And we weren't based on my shelf background.[…]
[…]oned me or I would have phoned you. (Yes) And there are still people around Alan who say and I sometimes meet them er at some I don’t know, the Royal Television Society some some (yes) senior executives says to me “I used to be a production manager with ..... “ Basic Films or World Wide or someone l[…]
[…] people?Reg Sutton: The relationship was very good. I mean, we had a man at Newcastle, a producer called Cecil McGibbon who eventually became head of television for a time until he died in bed, because he was a great smoker and he caught fire to himself. And Cecil McGibbon I used to do most of his p[…]
[…] a producer called Cecil McGibbon who eventually became head of television for a time until he died in bed, because […]
[…] Dean and I said what's he doing. He's with Baird Television, he's looking for somebody for some p hotographic process […]
