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February
2007
Jeremy Isaacs is a television producer, broadcaster and arts impresario.
Born in Glasgow, Isaacs was educated at Merton College, Oxford. He joined Granada Television as a producer (1958) and worked on programmes such as What The Papers Say and, for the BBC, Panorama. Isaacs has produced some of the most significant historical documentaries made for British television, such as The World At War (1975), made in 26 episodes, Ireland: A Television History (1981) and the Cold War (1998). He has been Director of Programs at Thames Television and was the first Chief Executive of Channel Four Television (1981-87), doing much to shape the reputation of that channel for quality alternative programming.
Between 1988 and 1996 Isaacs was Director General of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, enthusiastically allowing cameras in to view its controversial problems in the documentary The Royal Opera House – Behind The Scenes.
Hear him in conversation with John Mair
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February
2007
A former Coventry schoolboy who is now a top TV executive recently came back to the city to share the secrets of his success.
Paul Corley was born in Coundon and went to school at Moseley Avenue Primary and Bablake School where he was the head boy.
After graduating from Oxford University, he worked for the BBC and then went to work on to the ground-breaking Channel 4 series “The Tube’. He went on to be Controller of factual programmes for the ITV Network, Controller of factual programming for Carlton TV, Director of Programmes and then Chief Executive of Border TV.
He is now the Managing Director of Europe’s biggest breakfast broadcaster, GMTV, a post he has held for the last five years. He is also a fellow of the Royal Television Society. Hear him in Conversation with John Mair.
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7
February
2007
Chris Arnot has been a freelance feature writer on national newspapers and magazines for the past 17 years. His main outlet has been the Guardian. He has also contributed to the Independent, the Observer and the Daily Telegraph. During the 1990s, he made occasional contributions to BBC Radio 4, the Express and the Times.
In this Coventry Conversation he talks about being a Freelancer.
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February
2007
In 1981 Jane became a Researcher in the Current Affairs Department at the BBC and worked on several major series including Soldiers, a 13-part flagship series fronted by Frederick Forsyth.
“At 24 years of age I was picked to interview 120 war veterans around the world. It was an incredibly difficult task because for many of them, particularly the Vietnam war veterans, war experience was still fresh. It was doubted I’d stay the entire course, but stay the course I did. In fact I developed an absolute relish for asking questions that nobody else would dare ask and the directors used to tell me afterwards that they’d sit with their hearts in their mouths waiting for the answers.”
Hear Jane in conversation with John Mair.
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