[…]; The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Sir Paul Fox. One time Managing Director, BBC Television, Yorkshire Television. Interviewing Norman Swallow. Recorded on the 24th of March 1993. Side 1.First and foremost, where were you bor[…]
[…] and it would be an abdication not to defend its place in what we do." So I said, right we'll give you a bit of dissent. And I found a young man in a Yorkshire coal mine, he was a 22 year old, who had left his home in Durham and had come down to East Yorkshire, and become employed by the National Co[…]
[…]sdair as director of programmes was not the same as being controller of BBCl with David Attenborough as director of programmes. And so he went off to Yorkshire,John Taylor: The manoeuvring inside an organisation like the BBC must get very complicatedBill Cotton Jr: Well it did, it's one of the big p[…]
[…]r of them. Grace Wyndham Goldie I just used to hear of her as this legendary character. I think Donald Baverstock had peaked. He had left and gone to Yorkshire Television by the and Yorkshire television started I know he asked me to go up there with him. That was 1967 or so. Unpredictable mercurial […]
[…] was poverty stricken. Geoffrey as his name suggests came from Yorkshire and it was good solid middle - class stuff. […]
[…]n Wood...Mm.Was a producer in Light Entertainment who was very much in a comedy field. And I have a feeling he, I mean a bit proud of him leaving for Yorkshire, he was Head of Comedy and he of course, also produced Tony Hancock and he produced the originalSteptoe series, which was another. We w[…]
[…] he, I mean a bit proud of him leaving for Yorkshire, he was Head of Comedy and he of course, […]
[…]ve, provincially state sponsored, which was an official repository, andEast Anglia, which wasn’t. It was a private collector’s archive. Then there wasYorkshire which was an academic film archive; North West Film Archive. I thinkthere were some in the west country which have a fairly low profile even[…]
[…] wasn’t. =t was a private collector’s archive. Then there was Yorkshire which was an academic film archive; North West Film […]
[…]tions. This is tape one, side one. Gerald, you and I have been colleagues in Independent Television since 1957. I think we first met and we're fairly Yorkshireman. Tell me about your origins when and where we were born?Gerald Chambers 0:58 Well, I was born in a small mining village in So[…]
