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I didn't understand what I was talking about and went right off the deep end and I just adlibbed and laughed and that and," I said, "that was it!

I forget the name of the group now but he had hair and everything as a young man and he came on the show. I would come back from school and go up to the bedroom in front of a long mirror and would act things I'd seen in the pictures - Humphrey Bogart and such. Anyhow, he came out and David Johnson was the Head of News at that particular time and he also was Deputy Controller and he said to David, "I've got Glen here, he's going to do the programme so we'll put him on a long-term contract. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. Despite still being recognised in the street, Michael said that anyone could find themselves feeling alone behind closed doors.I remember the Home Secretary for Scotland (I can't remember his name now) walking through the studios and saying, "Do you mind if I get a photograph with Paladin! In 1966, then again from 1970 onwards the show also broadcast on most Christmas and New Year’s Days, until 1989. He informs me he has just come out of hospital, having been taken in a few nights before with a suspected heart attack that transpired to be a hiatus hernia. R: I think the best thing I can say about that is that I think the contribution that STV made in their early days was enormous.

We did thirty-two episodes which, in those days they used to wipe the tapes because they had no, they hadn't got enough tapes so they used to wipe the tapes and put new material on and, of course, they wiped thirty-two episodes of Francie and Josie, which I lost, which is a tragedy because they were brilliant! R: Yeah, we did the one, a no-smoking thing which, we did a campaign where we had Paladin the Lamp, of course, and Totty the Robot and Rusti the Dog so we did a campaign of "Don't smoke!The trouble with it is including things like the phone service and so on, I want to talk to somebody and eventually I get somebody who's, perhaps English isn't their first language. I remember the day when he was six years of age and I took him to the studios and sat him on my knee and said, 'How would you like to do this one day? We used to have a, an iron curtain used to come down and still, they kept the iron curtain in and I remember we had a recording, we were doing a recording and we had a break, we did a bit of the show and then we stopped the show for some reason, I think a technicality, and they dropped the iron curtain in just to separate the audience from the performers, what was going on on stage while they were sorting it out and then they couldn't get the iron curtain back up again! Age Scotland’s Big Survey found that two thirds of people in their 70s received offers of help from neighbours last year, rising to three quarters among those in their 80s. In those days, it wasn't a children's programme, it was a family programme and the mother, the father, the granny and grandpa and the kids all watched the one set.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by interview participants are personal and do not necessarily reflect the views of the History Project or any of its volunteers, employees or representatives. I: I think, remember STV when they did the shift to the new building and so on, when all that was going on. So, I went in and I came up the stairs and there was Francis Essex sitting behind a big desk and I sat down and I said, "I'm sorry! When Saga FM was bought by Real Radio company GMG Radio, Michael decided not to move across to Smooth Radio.I mean, I remember Macdonald coming to me and then saying, "Your ratings, you've got 89% of viewing figures" and I said, "Oh, I'm sorry about that! Glen Michael hosted Cavalcade, one of STV's most popular programmes ever, playing to millions of viewers during its 26-year run. Now we've got three questions which STV have asked for and these ones will be probably going out on a compilation programme on the 60th Birthday.

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