The art of film grading: Bill Girdlestone
The BEHP’s audio interview with Bill Girdlestone – conducted in 1987, and now digitised and available on the website […]
Volunteering at the BEHP
I have been volunteering for the BEHP (British Entertainment History Project – www.historyproject.org.uk – a hugely valuable collection of interviews
Sidney Cole: editor, producer, union man
Recently digitised and now available online (https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/sidney-cole) is the British Entertainment History Project’s 1987 interview with Sidney Cole. Sidney
IN THE BEGINNING: EARLY DAYS IN TALKIES AND TV
If Dallas Bower is remembered today, it is probably as the driving force behind the 1944 Laurence Olivier film of
The Birth of Pop: Saturday Club on the Light Programme
On 30th September 2017 we mark the 50th anniversary of the transformation of the BBC’s Light Programme into Radios 1
Sir Bruce Forsyth
Find out why Bruce Forsyth nearly became a newsagent. Listen to Brian Tesler’s interview at 01-34-30 to find out why.
Victim: Brave and Bitter
It’s not often that a film or TV programme has a direct, measurable political impact, and perhaps today, with
Live from Lime Grove: Michael Bond before Paddington Bear
Michael Bond passed away three weeks ago, but when I visited the statue of Paddington Bear at Paddington Station yesterday,
Roger Moore’s Bond movies
The death of Roger Moore last month triggered a wave of nostalgia, with the main focus inevitably on his
BEHP to collaborate on major BBC/Sussex University Project
The BEHP is one of a number of key partners contributing to a major new project, BBC Connected Histories, that will
Girls Like Us: Women Editors in British Film
The ‘Girls Like Us: British Women and WWII Cinema’ season continues at the National Film Theatre in May with more
The Latest Batch of History Project Interviews.
The latest batch of History Project interviews uploaded to our website this month include: Interview number 532 Peter Graham Scott