[…]y.Kay Mander: So your fame had gone quite wide by then, already.Joy Batchelor: Well, the films had.Kay Mander: So during all this time, there was the union. You've mentioned ACT not understanding about editors.Joy Batchelor: No they don't, to this day.Kay Mander: Did you, you joined ACTT - or ACT, r[…]
[…]ure. Really, I hadn't read enough about it. I think something needed to be doing, because I felt the film artist Association. It's such a tiny little Union. It needed something, but I can't you see Mr. Brown again, was coming down here. There's so much I had to catch up on, because I used to go to t[…]
[…] this bitterly at an art department section meeting at the union and we decided that we would ask them if […]
[…] ever join the ACTT or did you join the BBC union? ED: No, I joined the ACTT. I: You joined […]
[…] He explained it to me and said he was the Union and you couldn't work there without a ticket and […]
[…] Kay Mander: So during all this time, there was the union. You've mentioned ACT not understanding about editors. Joy Batchelor: […]
[…]om a small cutting, called ‘Nymphs and Shepherds’. Now that came from a newspaper cutting which was recording the fact that there was going to be a reunion of the Manchester Children’s Choir which in the 1930s had produced a [gramophone] record of “Nymphs and Shepherds” – which was, if there were su[…]
[…]d so on and, of course, it was very different television in 1981. It was still a monopoly of advertising sales that belonged to ITV and it was highly Unionised and I got told off several times for picking up things and "Don't touch that!" and you have to be driven and so on. It didn't work because I[…]
[…] think we did about four sessions over two days. We had about 130 people through. We had a party from the EBU, came through the European Broadcasting Union which I'll talk a bit about in a minute. And we had two Directors General came through. So John Birt was just on the way out at the time but he […]
[…]g happened to me was getting just back a bit so that I was working with Railton Oh, you may not know it's good Cameron and right. And he was a strong union mind. And of course, at this time, not everyone was in the union. You didn't have to be it was just really the beginnings of it. So I joined and[…]
