[…] Project. The interviewer is Janet McBain and the date is 13 May 2017. OK, Robert, when and where were you born? R: I was born and brought up in Edinburgh. My Dad worked for Bank of Scotland and my Mum was a stay-at-home Mum. Although he was a banker, he was always interested in technology and […]
[…] I: Yeah. R: I was born in Grangemouth in 1948 so I'm not local to Glasgow but I've tended to veer more to the East coast because I went to Edinburgh University so, apart from a period in Manchester, I've lived in Edinburgh for most of my life. I: So you were brought up in Grangemouth[…]
[…] first question is how did you actually find yourself in television? R: Well I came in 1981, late 1981, because I'd run the Festival Fringe, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for five years before that and I'd been interviewed on TV and I was also presenting a programme called Encore, which was STV[…]
[…]d a cinema release, didn't they, the shorts? On the big screen and they went down the Film Festival as well? R: They did. They were premiered at Edinburgh Film Festival and then they would be, they were all seen, they were all broadcast. One of the ones that, it makes me cry with happiness just[…]
[…]! I: So, from Wheel of Fortune you moved on to... R: Oh yeah, we went on to lots of other quizzes - Win, Lose or Draw, which was through in Edinburgh and the Win, Lose or Draw in Gaelic was fun because I don't speak Gaelic so I had to try and guess what they were saying all the time which,[…]
[…]oy for a long time was to have Scotland split vertically so that you would have a west coast and you'd have an east coast. The east coast giving them Edinburgh and Dundee. Dundee was actually ours, it wasn't that people would have thought it should be, it might have been Grampian's but, anyway, it w[…]
[…];R: That's right! No, you're absolutely right. I: But I remember this campaign particularly well. R: The photographer that took that was in Edinburgh. He was a very good photographer. He did it very well. A young guy. I: Oh yeah! I mean it certainly had a tremendous impact. I think th[…]
[…]off an application form so I filled it in. My contract was just finishing with the Uni and I'd got another job as a, it was an interior design job in Edinburgh and I'm so glad I didn't get it! Anyway, I got an interview and I showed up and I sat down with Peter, who was the Head of Design, fabulous![…]
[…]he date is 5 March 1990, File No 130.SIDE 1, TAPE 1John Taylor: Just start at the beginning. When were you born and whereJimmy Gilbert: I was born in Edinburgh in 1923 and my father, he was Irish, he came from the West Coast of Ireland and he was sent up to Scotland and I was born and brought up in […]
[…]eattock all your young life?Denis Forman: Until I was fifteen. I didn't go to England until I was fifteen. Hardly went out of thevalley much, went to Edinburgh, dentist and things. I then went to school at Loretto, so I was verymuch a Scots lad and was brought up to speak the 1 Scots and had some di[…]
