[…]d was demobbed, I think, in January 47, as a major. Andcame out of the army then and went back - I was offered a job by a chap called Leslie Murray atUniversal News. He was the boss of Universal News under a man called Clifford Jeakes whoowned it. I went there as a camera man, I learned sound to ope[…]
[…], that was an old front shutter simplex with a very old Ross lamp house, a very very old one. The sound was Western electric with a universal base, and the cinema around the corner the Globe, when I say not round the corner about 10 minutes walk, was there again T[…]
[…] I love you, you're my friend. I don't want to fallout with you and I said a producer is a producer. The producer is the man who has to bring the bad news, and I said I don't want to row with you, dad. He saidI tell you what, I'll never row with you in pUblic. So I said but there are plenty. I will […]
[…].DS: European Service. And people rang up and said I need a quarter of an hour recording time to do something, or there were block bookings for radio newsreel and whatever, and you had to fill in all these charts and then people would ring up and say can you fit me in a quarter of an hour. And it be[…]
[…]ieve Easter 1935, although I maybe have got the date wrong, I was sitting on the beach, on the pebble ridge at Dymchurch with my aunt and there was a newspaper on the beach and I read the headline of it and whatever it said I don't remember. But I said, “What does that mean?” and she told me what it[…]
[…]er 10:40 Anyway, so andMichael Clarke 10:40 then, George, for me that that sort of moment cinnabar perhaps once a week having news to me this statistics, that doesn't mean that people were incentivized once a week. What was it 1/3 of them confessed that they took my shoes off[…]
[…] DMW: Yes, but today’s documentary makers only look up the dramatic bits. The happy bits are singularly undramatic: happiness does not make good news, tragedy and drama sell.6:42 NS: Only bad news is good news as they say still.6:45 Alan Lawson [AL]: You know what I think a lot of k[…]
[…] a former president of the Irish cricket union.Unknown Speaker 2:06 When we met the first time, it was 50 years ago in 1973. You were the news editor for UTP reports. I was a rather callow youth just out of university, and I was applying for a job with Granada TV. And I, as a student tha[…]
