| Comment | I worked on a kids TV show for the BBC once where the sound recordist was very vocal about his appreciation of a child’s breasts. Everyone else around me acted like it was normal and just ‘banter’.
He also had holdalls of porn in his van and would send me to search for specific types of battery etc knowing I’d have to rifle through the porn and then he’d say “Like what you saw?”
I also went to let him know we were ready to start filming again and he was fuming that I’d opened the side door of the van as he fumbled to get his trousers back up (clearly having a wank)
Everyone just put up with his vile and aggressive behaviour so that was my first, and last, job in the industry. Traumatised.
I think he probably continued to approach my uni to specifically request girls to groom/take on as apprentices because they ‘work harder’ than guys, and the uni probably continued sending clueless girls his way (except for the ones shagging the tutors I guess).
Pretty glad I declined his very insistent offer to stay in a Travelodge the first night I did a job with him, after he insisted getting my boyfriend to pick me up from Linthligow to drive back to Glasgow was ‘too far’.
This isn’t really that relevant to Hardeep but just a taster of the Scottish TV industry I guess. |
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