As many of you will know already, we have been trying to get hold of a host of people who worked at ATV and Central in Birmingham over the years, and have already had great interviews with people like Peter Tomlinson, Bob Carolgees, and Debbie Shore. Over the past few months we have been in touch with several personalities who worked there and hope to be able to get back to them pretty soon to arrange a meeting with them, whereby we can record some more great stories for you, about their time at the ATV Centre....
One of the people I have contacted was ATV and Central legend Shaw Taylor M.B.E. Shaw contacted me back and generously agreed to meeting with us to do an interview. So, last week, Lee, Steve and I went to Birmingham and met up with Shaw at the Hyatt Regency hotel where he was staying. I have to say here, what a wonderful experience it was meeting such a great personality as Shaw, who was so generous with his time and so enthusiastic about talking to us about his time at ATV. Many of you will know that Shaw was a big personality for ATV, he was an announcer, a game show presenter, a Royal correspondent, a panel judge on programmes such as New Faces and Miss ATV and of course presenter for 30 years of Police 5. I know that you will all enjoy hearing what Shaw had to say when the programme is finished. What I can say (without giving too much away) is that, as you would imagine, Shaw recounted his fond memories of ATV and some of the people in the organisation with whom he worked, including Lew Grade no less.
I would like to personally thank Shaw again, for his generosity in the time he gave us and the stories he told us which will enhance our programme no end for you the viewers.... Just for now, here is a small taster for you....
3 comments:
Brilliant, I can't wait for this! keep up the good work!
I must add my thanks as well to Shaw - he's an absolute joy to interview. His memory of ATV events and stories is superb and he is so fond (and proud) of his time with ATV. I know he could have gone on forever about his memories of ATV. A real gentleman.
I must also say a big thanks to Shaw for allowing us some of his valuable time to reminisce about the days of ATV and Central.
It was such a fantastic couple of hours and I could have listened to him all evening.
A true professional. Thank you also for doing the special trailer for us.
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