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[…]n't have it [so] had to do six months so I was made second in command of a squadron in the tank training regiment09:00up on Wakeworth Moor [?] on the Yorkshire Moors we had that winter 1946/47 we were cut off. Well anyway as they say in The Goon Show this is where the story really starts. I’m demobb[…]
[…], I wasn't operational, I ran between the Guildhall where Michael Roberts did sound, to the Guildhall where David did sound. In between came various ATV bits in Wood Green, like the variety show that night. But I was around. There was a terrible thunderstorm. But the first programme that went out li[…]
[…]views a year or so ago and itwent down very well. Largely because he was a Yorkshire man, and one of thepoints I should make that television in terms of it's&nb[…]
[…]y, that was true in the past, and I think it's still true in some areas.Keith Ewart 15:45 Certainly. I mean, we have had an example where Yorkshire Television, yes, sent down a whole they were going to do a program here, and sent down a number of people to see it. I thought they were Mot[…]
[…]Oh no - no - no - no”, he said “I don’t get a lot of work these days, I’d get even less with this” And eventually the television people, it was Yorkshire, said “Donald you play it”. And I said to Donald “Don’t play it” and he said - you know- I said “Don’t play it Donald beca[…]
[…]dea was, some bright spark at Aeolean Hall had devised a show that would end, would replace the Billy Cotton Band Show, which was like roast beef and Yorkshire pudding on Sunday, wakey, wakey. We did 16 weeks while Billy had a holiday and then came back and went on forever. I mean anyone who thougjt[…]
[…]the way along Fleet St, both sides, for a deserted Fleet St., and we had one car which we had overturned and put on the sidewalk, outside I think the Yorkshire Post, and when we were ready to go, and our actors had rehearsed, we'd say right “Ready” and the truck with fuller's earth would go up Fleet[…]
[…]r difficult. I mean it’s not easy to get commissions, we’ve put in hundreds actually, we’ve put in proposals all over the place. I’ve got one in with Yorkshire Television which hasn’t actually been turned down, it hasn’t been accepted either, but... We’re putting one or two in to the new commissioni[…]
