An interview with Jeremy Bullmore
How did you come to a career in advertising?
The BBC was making a documentary about Oxford University and they broadcast a bit of the revue I had written - produced by Ned Sherrin and starring Maggie Smith - called Oxford Accents. And it happened to be seen by George Butler, who was then head of the art department at J Walter Thompson.
Ned and I went for interviews, and George had totally forgotten why we were there. He was very vague and only interested in art directors, and we had an...