[…] and then there was the merger/takeover of Grampian, which might have made sense in terms of trying to keep STV as a separate entity within the ITV Network but then there's this explosion of buying everything at a very high price! Did any of it make sense or was it always a disaster waiting to happe[…]
[…]sp; One of my first BBC TV jobs was to help launch The Money Programme. Two producers, Terry Hughes & Anthony Smith, put in proposals: BBC approved both and flipped the producers so Terry ran The Money Programme. I hel[…]
[…]being a Jew, being a woman, you know. Rodney Giesler 15:41So you eventually ended up at Shell. Sarah Erulkar 15:45I, yes, I got two replies, one from Shell and one from Crown. And the Crown one came four days after Shell. So I went, went for the interview at Shell and, and was […]
[…]sticks. steeplechase rider because my father had been, I'd gone hunting with my father a lot, and always had quite a lot to do with horses. For about two years or so I rode as a jockey as a steeplechase jockey. Yeah. And then after that, I decided that I didn't really like falling off courses very m[…]
[…]meantime I'd met a girl who was my best friend for a long time. Now I met her in a production that Robert Donat did I must have done that between the two seasons at Stratford. Robert Donat put on a play of his own called Red Night Lost all his money in it as far as I remember because it was about th[…]
[…]s a mountainous lady, very fat and very gay. And my father, a very sour severe individual… but I loved them. Soon I had enough of them and when I was two and-a-half years old I ran away from home into the nearest forest. I was found sleeping under a tree by gypsies who wouldn't give me up because of[…]
[…] 1946 and I with a lot of the others applied to go over. We were accepted and of course we went over before the studios opened. In those years we had two studios, A and B. One was Marconi and the other was Baird. We did a week in each studio. So we used to have to learn both systems of course. And I[…]
[…] worst of all was I can remember at one or two Odeons they used to do cine-bingo, so it would […]
