[…]hat time Philip thought he was involved in the politics of the BBC. I mean, this was in the days of McGivern, Norman Collins, the television at Alexandra Palace was derided.I: Early 50s, yeah?R: Early 50s. 1950 I arrived at the BBC. 1950. T[…]
[…] the boats going away. Came back. Took it up to Alexandra Palace. "Awfully nice! Thank you very much indeed!" you know. That […]
[…]and er...another 'Old Mother Riley' I think...and er, we finished there, and this gentleman rang me up, Dale Struther[?] I said "BBC?! Oh God...BBC?! Alexandra Palace?!...Never been up there!" and he said "Well, could you do the start of The Boat Race?" and I said er "Oh yes!" and the only experienc[…]
[…]?Before the war and he, he wanted to come back as a producer, which he did.Television?Television producer. And so in I think March 1946 we went up to Alexandra Palace and we had an office and we started getting together programmes. And it was, it was very exciting and I mean there was no training. M[…]
[…] I, we, we rehearsed there. Right. When we were at Alexandra Palace. Oh, so you’ve gone back a bit, yes. Yes, I’m […]
[…]ng to do with the BBC, then I lived in Prince...[30:06]Mm.In Prince, Prince, oh what's that road? Princes Road, down near the V&A.A long way from Alexandra Palace of course?Yes, and I’ll tell you how we got there. And then, then eventually I conned the BBC for some reason into letting me back in[…]
[…] know about, but they were in shows we did at Alexandra Palace. And in latter years, when I worked with Steph several […]
[…] first class and when you could get the sound off it was quite reasonable, it was a film camera on top of a processing machine, the room we had it at Alexandra Palace, when we installed the equipment at Alexandra Palace had kind of 3 positions. You had an arc, you had one set on your extreme left, y[…]
[…] carpenters' shop. They had a very good carpenters shop at Alexandra Palace. The art director, the man in charge of the art […]
