[…]mentioned George Formby - about his awful wife...PS. Beryl.DB. So, going on after the war, then, when you joined the BBC, were you involved in mostly documentary programmes, or plays, or series? PS. The whole lot That's why I liked the BBC, because you got this variety. The documentaries were always[…]
[…] became the success I thought it should have become but it did make, kind of, stars of all the actors. And then the last thing I did at Granada was a documentary series in the days when ITV used to do kind of adult education. There was a slot at seven o' clock on a Monday night before Coronation Str[…]
[…]sound. The time they were producing the wicked Lady 1946. Mason & Grainger to Ealing. I didn't even get an interview at Ealing. The various documentary outfits, which was smaller and I was told, you know, this is the place to get into a small setup that I think we call the film centre with[…]
[…]n drinking with a friend of mine who had been at art school, who was by this time and assistant director working at Shepperton. And heknew of a small documentary company who in the summer of nine, what was his name? Michael Grey, he was he was the assistant director. And he said that they were absol[…]
[…]ng a memoir he had that they were at some Christmas they listened to the nine, the carol service, you know, together on board ship. So he did a naval documentary, drama documentary and had Michael in to narrate it, which was when I first met Michael Horden. And then Michael took part in something at[…]
[…]one of the Heads of Departments, Julian Mounter, who I got on very well, is now Head of New Zealand Television. He was a journalist, he’d been a documentary man, journalist, and he came in, Head of Children’s and Drama, and he had a most peculiar way of going on because he called me i[…]
[…]ll you know the whole thing but no. And my my my interest was more in documentary ending the use of motion pictures in the public service. How do you […]
