[…] ton, which is between New Malden and Kingston -Upon - Thames. My Dad was a toolmaker, who’s now retired, and […]
[…] rang up...rang up er...a Mr Ernie Garside[?] at er...(Walton on Thames) er Worton Hall Studios at Isleworth, he'd most likely, […]
[…] NEVILLE WORTMAN: Yes. [Checks his notes] DARROL BLAKE: The next thing I’ve got is Eamonn Andrews which is obviously ABC/Thames.NEVILLE WORTMAN: That’s right, that’s it. My big idea then, I thought that ABC was really the best thing that happened to ITV at th[…]
[…] to cut a long story short, about a couple of weeks later he rang me up and said if I rang up...rang up er...a Mr Ernie Garside[?] at er...(Walton on Thames) er Worton Hall Studios at Isleworth, he'd most likely, you know, er...fix me up. So I rang up this gentleman and he said, "Yes, we want a Clap[…]
[…]l we'll see how you get on there then" - attitude, you know. Anyway for about a week or two this incredible dialogue going on between the chairman of Thames Television, who's dead now - was it Lord Barnett? The one before Lord Barnett, Howard Thomas!Alan Sapper: Howard Thomas, yes.Johnny Goodman: Ho[…]
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[…]started me on the road to television. [5:12]I'd been in the Nottingham Playhouse for a couple of years but I'd also applied to ABC Television as Thames originally was, or it was, Thames was the merger of two companies, ABC and Rediffusion, and I had applied for a trainee Director's scheme that […]
[…]re and I was born a couple of weeks early, erm, I, we, were brought up on a council estate in Norbiton, which is between New Malden and Kingston-Upon-Thames. My Dad was a toolmaker, who’s now retired, and my Mum did all sort of jobs to fit in and around myself and my brother, who’s Martin, who’s sev[…]