[…]mazement, got a reply from the personnel. A person, at the time, called John Baxter who invited me for an interview so I toddled along one day to the Theatre Royal where STV's front door was at the time and went for an interview, which was, I think, the most frightening experience I'd ever had in my[…]
[…]I think. Went in to editing, I was the programme editor on it, finally became a trainee Director and moved on from there. I: And this was in the Theatre Royal? R: This was in the Theatre Royal. The Theatre Royal was one of Glasgow's great music halls and had been there for more than a hund[…]
[…]mi supervisory positions. So then after about, I think, three or four years, I got promoted to an audio supervisory level. So grandma pinging dubbing theatres, I did an awful lot of dubbing Top Gear Countryfile, as it is now farming as it started out being lots of other dramas in dubbing, I would be[…]
[…] was very, very old, it was kind of an old craft union is what it was. You see they organisedthe staffs in cinemas and organisedstaffing in theatres really and they organisedcraftsmen in television and film so that it was very much a craft union in that sense, you know, painters, carp[…]
[…] if I'm going to work, I want to be paid a reasonable wage for it. And my father use somebody for the film society called Lou Hines who ran a dubbing Theatre in London. And he said he thought he could get a job as a projectionist. So as 18 years old, I went up to telephone services and Baker Street.[…]
