[…]e said a word about your long career in television JeanJean Anderson: No, that does go back a long way, in fact I go back to shortly after the way at Alexandra Palace I don’t think anyone could have had a more demanding baptism into television. It was a play by Denis Johnson , it was a play about Sw[…]
[…]was an advertisement either on Arial or on BBC notice noticeboards which said people who fancy themselves as commentators may attend a an audition at Alexandra Palace, you should apply through your personnel officer etc. etc. So I immediately applied for an audition and I had an audition in perhaps […]
[…] 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[…]
[…] there too were you? Alan Lawson : I worked from Alexandra Palace, then Lime Grove, and then from Ealing. Peter […]
