[…]awful, royal telly silly. [Laughter]Yes. And I, for about ten years I managed to persuade my employers, whichever producer it was...Oh yes.The BBC or Thames or Granada whatever to either be all on film or all on tape.Oh indeed, yes.And that was, that was quite an achievement.Oh revolutionary, yes, y[…]
[…]was painted red like Wolsey’s room to suggest that he is ‘playing at home’ and to use a small table which made Wolsey look bigger; shooting the River Thames was done in Hampshire; a Tudor house in Oxford was used for More’s house as they didn’t have the money to build a set in England; JB talks abou[…]
[…]ce to break the music, you know, because all those children are playing on the swings there. And then it suddenly cuts to a boat going down the River Thames or something. So that'll be section one, you know. And I mean, there wasn't, we know, mark them, one, m1 and all that. So it was only two, two […]
[…] terrible atmosphere of those people who stayed on. A lot of people were already leaving. Most of the staff in Telecine had hopped it, they'd gone to Thames. I lost track of everybody in Telecine. This is after they'd been taken on, you know.Alan Lawson: Yes, yes.David Robson: [Laughs] Terrible plac[…]
[…] although the pictures were all quota quickies, and they really were pretty rubbishy...Roy Fowler: He lived in a manor house on the banks of the Thames?E.M. Smedley-Aston: No, he lived in a very delightful house on the bend of the river at Laleham...no not Laleham, Laleham's the other dire[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 403 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-10-02Interview Date: 1997-04-22Interviewer: John LegardInterviewee: Peggy GickTape 1, Side 1 John Legard: Now Peggy, perhaps you'd like to tell us a little bit about your early life?Peggy Gick: My father wa[…]
[…]ust tell meCB: No, I can’t remember very much about it, except that it was a very, very, very nice picture. We shot it all on a barge up and down the Thames which is absolutely beautiful in the summer. It was directed by an Italian and his assistant was an Italian and they could hardly speak a word […]
