The twelfth and final episode of a chat show presented by regional television personality Mike Neville that this week features a triple-bill of guests including filmmaker Lord David Puttnam, The Blues Band frontman Paul Jones and Northumberland born darts commentator Sid Waddell. Title: The Mike Neville Show To the applause of the studio audience presenter Mike Neville comes out on to the stage and introduces the final show in the series describing his first guest as the man behind such...

The twelfth and final episode of a chat show presented by regional television personality Mike Neville that this week features a triple-bill of guests including filmmaker Lord David Puttnam, The Blues Band frontman Paul Jones and Northumberland born darts commentator Sid Waddell. Title: The Mike Neville Show To the applause of the studio audience presenter Mike Neville comes out on to the stage and introduces the final show in the series describing his first guest as the man behind such films as Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire and Local Hero and who was made a Life Peer in Prime Minister Tony Blair’s first honours list. Coming out onto the stage Lord David Puttnam takes a seat beside Mike and the two talk about his reason for being in the Northeast, to attend a special ceremony installing him formerly as Chancellor of the University of Sunderland. He provides details on what the role entails and why it is a privilege. He talks about the university as his idea of what a university for the 21st century should be. He talks about growing up in London and his father who was a Fleet Street photographer who left the industry in the 1950 as he saw the mission of journalists being corrupted. He talks about how he got into film after seeing Pinocchio as a child and his career in advertising and how working with both Ridley Scott and Alan Parker allowed him to produce Midnight Express and show that the British could make an American film as well as the Americans. In the final part of the interview, David talks about his time as Chairman of Columbia Pictures which while not a happy one did give the company the greatest number of Oscar nominations and wins than any other time in its existence. Taking the programme into a commercial break Mike states that after the break he will be chatting with the singer Paul Jones and the man they call the ‘Geordie Lip’ Sid Waddell. Title: The Mike Neville Show Returning from the break Mike Neville describes his next as a man who found fame in the 1960s as the lead singer of Manfred Mann. Since then, he has established a reputation as an actor and the frontman for the ever popular The Blues Band. A clip of the band performing on stage at the Rawa Blues Festival in Poland changes to Paul Jones coming out onto the stage to take a seat beside Mike. Mike asks Paul about his musical background and how he became interested in Blues music which Paul describes as something that snuck up on him. He talks about almost having Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones join a band and the joining the phenomenally successful Manfried Mann. Paul talks a little about what it was like being young in the 1960s describing it as exciting times, why he left Manfried Mann and how getting into acting came out of leftfield. Introducing the final guest as the voice of British darts with his unique commentating style, he explains that his talents aren’t restricted to dart. In a bar a drunken Sid Waddell sings karaoke Ain’t that a Shame by Fats Domino before coming out onto the stage to sit beside Paul Jones. He and Mike talk jokingly talk about his singing career which began when he was a miner at Lynemouth in Northumberland and playing the clubs in Ashington. He talks about being part of a duo ‘The Gravy Boatmen’ and the time he was the road manager for The Animals for a night. He talks about being the unmistakable voice of British darts and how he got into the sport. He moves onto talk about his successful writing career and the series wrote Jossy’s Giants which Sid exclaims is the most popular children’s comedy of the past twenty years and was based on a real team from Leeds. Bringing the interview to a close Mike asks both Sid and Paul about attending prestigious universities with Sid attending Cambridge and Paul Oxford. Bringing the programme and the series to a close Mike thanks his guests and hopes to see the audience again ‘when-ever.’ Title: The Mike Neville Show Credit: Title Music Alan Clark Floor Manager Herbie Newton Vision Mixer Eileen Young Cameras Simon Elphinstone Jimmy JIB Operator Ken Moulson Sound Mixer Charles Heath Lighting Director John Mason Production Team Lisa Eccles, Garry Smith, Steve Snowdon Production Co-ordinator Sarah Howie Production Manager Barbara Buglass Research Gaye Slater Designer Tim Trout Executive Producers Peter Mitchell, Malcolm Wright Producer Jo Mapplebeck Series Producer and Director Keith Cheetham Title: A Zenith North production for Tyne Tees Television. © Tyne Tees Television MCMXCVIII End title: A Tyne Tees Television programme for Channel 3 North East