[…] you Peter for taking part in this. So just to start, perhaps you could tell us a little bit about your early career when you went into the film industry?PL: Well I won a scholarship and I didn’t get the eleven-plus, but there was a scholarship available for thirteen-plus and I won it, with some fri[…]
[…]ay. R: 19, no, no, no! 2017! I: So, we are just chatting. When did you first get an interest in becoming, in fact in the entertainment industry? I2: Can I, sorry about this, may I stop you for a moment because I just need to. Right, we're going. I: OK? R: Well, if you want m[…]
[…]Ross and from '76 to '79 he was the Minister of State of the Department of Energy when Anthony Neil Wedgewood Benn was the Secretary of State. He was trying to get into Parliament for a Parliamentary Constituency called West Renfrew in Inverclyde which was the tightest three-way marginal in the UK, […]
[…]Balmore workshop which was one of the best places STV ever created! It was an industrial unit up past Maryhill and they had, and it would be great to try and get a Joiner or a Painter to come and be interviewed because they had a full complement of Joiners, Scenic Joiners and a full complement of Sc[…]
[…]n England. And I said “No, I don’t do that sort of thing.” 25 mins GG: “It’s a panel game, I can’t do that.” “Well, would you just come and try it?” So, I went along to the Ed Sullivan Theatre on Broadway, or just off-Broadway, I don’t know, to do five shows: you did two in the morning, th[…]
[…]omedian, Jimmy Logan, who'd come south to do as soon as the BBC. And always remember Jimmy saying to me, if I wear a kilt, the audience will think is trying too hard. And if I don't wear a kilt, the balls back home with seeds sold out. So you had a bit of a problem. And there was a lovely man who'd […]
[…]And I suppose I immediately said: “I want to be a Continuity Girl.” “Ahh, I will make you the finest Continuity Girl in the business, in the country.” Said he.(TIME 10.59) “So, you are to work with me.” I said: “Well, I actually work forTwo Cities, and I work for Guido.”&nbs[…]
[…]gdon [Darrol laughs].DB: Did you have any ambitions at that time?PM: I wanted to be a cowboy, I think! ‘Cos I used to like Westerns. Still do. Gene Autry and all that stuff.No, not really, I left school when I was fifteen and a half. I left school, and through my father’s old wartime friend, who was[…]
[…]bsp; That was ITV in those days. A bit of a battlefield, industrial disputes. Thames had many notorious disputes. Trying to run a creative programme with overtime bans/travel bans – “Brothers I know what you’re doing but boy is it getting in the way”. &[…]
