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[…]r, a very good administrator, a very tidy mind. I:   I’ve also got you down Peter from 1959 to 72 Sports Advisor European Broadcasting Union? P:   Oh, well that was another of my hats that I had to wear.  I went with Cecil McGivern to the very first meeting of the […]

[…]p;         So again then, the person who was mixer and the person that was boom operator didn’t belong to any union.A          Didn’t belong to any union at all.  They had mostly come in from either the Post Of[…]

[…] and I always felt there was tremendous protection from the union to me and er, well, the subscription I don't […]

[…] matrices. This was suggested as a way to get a union ticket. Then to Elstree as an assistant doing rubber […]

[…]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[…]

[…]ople and he knew everybody . And he said the only way you can start is to try to get a job on your own. I found it most difficult because there was a union restriction everywhere. After the war all the boys were coming back and I was one of them but I was not American. So the priority was you had to[…]

[…]n actors for a start and also with I think some, I think base of it, I think there, there must have been some Italian crew I would think probably for union reasons.AL: There would be.And it was based, it was actually shot in... Oh golly, where’s the place of the, of the mosaics in Italy? Oh I c[…]

[…], and we will do so!" [Chuckles] And suddenly I was given twelve pounds a week and I was - and I always felt there was tremendous protection from the union to me and er, well, the subscription I don't think was very much. I was very grateful to belong, I can tell you, because suddenly I was on regis[…]