[…]Which publishers actually find important, you imagine a publisher, half the Beatles, you know, the obvious way to do it with 2420, or 30. Absolutely, universally successful songs. So people always wanting to make a new recording of them, or they wanted to use them in some film or anywhere. And if yo[…]
[…]was your role? R: I started as a Researcher in Granada which was the way that everybody started and I spent the first year, more or less, in the Newsroom and we, kind of, did everything. But the person I probably learned most from at the beginning was a Presenter called Tony Wilson and Tony was[…]
[…]Rank and its storageproblems and [b)] with the American film companies. And I’m not scared to saythis now, but I had battles with people like MGM and Universal when I had toaccuse them of cultural vandalism because they were going to destroyextremely good quality UK held material which they didn’t h[…]
[…]o the time you became qualified within the BBC, taking on a senior position?Michael Aldridge 3:27 Yes, they did. Well, I worked mainly in news and current affairs in The Grove when I started with the BBC. I didn't spend much time at Ealing, it was mainly at The Grove. And then from The G[…]
[…]school I came in contact with a man called Frank basil. Now that was the Frank Brown, the Frank bevel on the lawn remember, I think of ICT he was the newsreel cameraman, and this was his son. And at Frank Basil's PLOS, we had old padley wooden pathi cameras, and a mass of memorabilia from the war. A[…]
[…] old hand cranked projectors for all I know.SAMUELSON: Yeah, maybe. I worked in two cinemas where they had the old, what were called Western Electric Universal Base which was the projector that came in and it to have a variable speed motor because it coped with both sound on disk, which is what the […]
[…] given a job to do for nine months, I did news clips, little three -minute items that were inserted into […]
[…]ly Labour Party, but I was attracted to what I was hearing from people like Paul Foot and International Socialists at the time. Er, and I was reading newspapers but not with great depth, just enjoying myself being an eighteen year old. [06:43] And then I got ill with glandular fever. Becau[…]
[…]hat maybe I might be a journalist. So I'd, I'd applied for various journalism courses, and I actually got shortlisted for the Edinburgh, the Scotsman news Trainee Scheme, which was my absolute passion and desire to be because my great, my great grandfather, had owned the Scotsman back in the day, Si[…]
