[…] following me.About the rats I must tell you, we had a rat catcher with a cage coming with the rats and in the heat of the film studio which was then Alexandra Palace, all the rats fell asleep, one had to prod them into activity, to go into that torture xxx [possibly hell or dark?].Norman Swallow: I[…]
[…] but you imagine driving this sewer pipe round with you!Alan Lawson: Well this is the same diameter of cable they used to have before the war at Alexandra Palace.Cyril Pennington-Richards: At what?Alan Lawson: At Alexandra Palace, in television before the war.Cyril Pennington-Richards[…]
[…] and agreed to launch a service. In 1935 it acquired Alexandra Palace to serve as its TV broadcasting centre, and started […]
[…]c electrical principles, and B was much more technical. And then they sent you out on a six month tour around the entire BBC. So I started in news at Alexandra Palace, and then I went to all the different departments in Television Centre. I went to film at Ealing studios. Then I went to outside broa[…]
[…]I mean you started working. If I'm right. I learned driving about 55 56. Yes I did.SPEAKER: M4But by the way did you. What was your relationship with Alexandra Palace did. Did you have a period working at Alexandra Palace.SPEAKER: M1No I joined them just as I recall others dating his the pals that I[…]
[…] I recruited my lot and I then set up a training course with Rodney Marsh. And who was then the head of Star training, and a trained all my people at Alexandra Palace, got them into action. And we we made started making 300 radio and 300 television programmes a year, building up to or building up to[…]
