
Maurice Colbourne & Saeed Jaffrey. Copyright resides with the original holders, no reproduction without permission
Here is an interview with writer Philip Martin, who died in 2020, about how the 1975, Play for Today, Gangsters, came about:
Maurice Colbourne & Saeed Jaffrey. Copyright resides with the original holders, no reproduction without permission
Here is an interview with writer Philip Martin, who died in 2020, about how the 1975, Play for Today, Gangsters, came about:
Photos by Bhasker Solanki, no reproduction without permission
Jim Gray, being assisted by Simon Bennett, on the jib camera in the first and third photo.
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Gareth Williams: It’s Inside Out from 1985 – Floor Assistant yours truly. Directed by Pedr James and Tony Smith. Costume by Janice Rider and Sally Nieper, produced by Sally Head, Script Ed a very young Caroline Oulton , theme tune Phil Collins. It all goes a bit hazy from there…!
Janice Rider: Lou Wakefield ( bottom R ) seated with back to us , played the lead
Gareth Williams:And Gwyneth Strong, standing, later ‘Cassandra’ in OFAH.
Here’s the false gable end from “The Franchise Affair” (1988). Christopher Glover was working on VT on this outside broadcast. The flames from gas burners when shot from the right angle made it look like the building being on fire.
Les Podraza is the chap up the ladder (note the lack of health and safety). He spent two days building this the flaming structure. The night shoot was apparently fantastic.
England’s Greens and Peasant Land. Copyright resides with the original holder, no reproduction without permission
The Play for Today was directed by Jim Hill (in front of Janice Rider & next to Heather Storr ), make-Up Sue Bide & Viv Howells (centre back) John Norton producer (left of Heather) William Hartley Ist AD (right at the back behind Viv) . John Parker (sound – back row extreme right). Andrew Smith, front right, with Dawn Robertson to the extreme right), Amin Hassan (middle right), Billy Bennett (next to Amin), Johnny Potter (sunglasses) next to Steve White.
Here is the entry from the Radio Times, courtesy of the BBC Genome project: