John Schlesinger

[…]make him into the star we all hoped. And we had an unknown called Lisa Eichhorn who was in fact American, but she managed to put on such a convincing Yorkshire accent and I remember, I've always been rather fussy about faces and she had some very badly capped teeth and when we did the first test wit[…]

Karel Reisz

[…]chardson and in competition against - Norman Swallow: 33.00 David Storey. It was a Storey novel, another Yorkshire writer. Karel Reisz:33.04Correct. Saturday Night wasn't Yorkshire, it was set in Nottingham, the Midlands. Norman S[…]

50 Years of British TV Documentaries

[…] Action’ (Granada) ‘Survival’ (Anglia) ‘This Week’ (Thames) ‘First Tuesday’ ( Yorkshire TV) have disappeared. In 1982 Channel four was launched […]

Jim Whittell

[…]    JIM WHITTELL:  No question, I am third generation cinema operator.  My grandfather bought a cinema in Dinnington in West Yorkshire called The Palace, still there, chemist shop now.  And ran that for several years using his family, two daughters and a son, as the pro[…]

Mary Harvey (Welford)

[…]at's right.He was six foot four, and Edward Rigby was about four foot, eleven.Yes, yes, Cyril Coke, he went on to do very well. I think he's now with Yorkshire Television, I don't know where he is, it's a long time ago. He would be very useful to you.He might, he, he must be late seventies now.Yes. […]

Cedric Dawe

[…]had, during that period some assistance. The technical side of it was that I had one assistant who was an ex scenic artist, Charlie Gilbert. He was a Yorkshire chappie and he and I got on very well, but I still had to do my own drawings, not only set sketches but working drawings as well. I didn't b[…]
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