[…] of 8Please note that the use of the Val Guest tapes is restricted and the copyright remains with Val Guest and his estate. Interview with Val Guest, writer, producer, director, at his house…on 17th August 1988.[NB This transcript, whilst ‘complete’ includes some paraphrasing and omits some repetiti[…]
[…]usly, because Julian was very foolish, Julian was caught up in what then became the 60s. I was all for staying with John, Julian is a brilliant lyric writer but he wasn't very hot on structure and the structure of a book is very important. I didn't have anything to do with the book. I would get the […]
[…] the other stuff he did. He was a genuinely funny writer and had a deep sense of character. In the […]
[…]ything else since then. I'll tell you one interesting story, which relates to what came later, I'll jump because of this story. When Eddie Braven the writer for Morecambe and Wise, him of course I worked with for years later, he was a kid at that time, because he's, I don't know he'd be four or five[…]
[…]use of Betty, and because I wanted to be in London. A job came up at Pathé News, and I went to Pathé in Wardour Street as a Newsreel Commentary Writer. I wasn’t the only one. But I learned more at Pathé, I suppose, than I did at any other place, other than in television, because wh[…]
BECTU History Project Interview with Philip Donnellan – documentary, writer, producerInterview Date(s): 28 & 29 June 1991Interview number: 206Interviewer: Colin MoffatSide 1Colin Moffat: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Philip Donnellan: television doc[…]
[…]k with brains like that, absolutely incredible. And then I was given as a sort of a PA full production assistant to Marius Goring. Great actor, great writer, great broadcaster, who had recently as the war broke out, written and starred in this Under the Shadow of the Swastika, series, which was warn[…]
[…] that there wasn't much in the way of job security, by the sound of it. Oh no, tell me what it was like in the 50s to set up shop as a freelance what writer, producer, director, how much work was there around what were the chances of getting a good movie? Did you have to make your own chances, or di[…]
[…] aw it wa s made in Ottawa. And that the writer of it was a former art critic I knew […]
[…] as opposed to... R: Yes. Yes. That's right. It was, I had never actually done a soap before so, and it's a special skill! I did have a terrific writer to start us off. He was a guy who'd done quite a number of things previously on the network in that vein. Don Horton was his name and he very, […]
