[…]BC, and my sister Hazel was working in the Variety Department at Aeolian Hall, but she heard of a vacancy going for a secretary to the Administrative Assistant of the Near East Department out at Aldenham, near Elstree, and she arranged an interview for me. I can’t think how I got that sort of j[…]
[…] asked what the job was and he said it's called assistant engineer. I said what's the job and he said to […]
[…]e at Rediffusion and this and that and they didn’t seem to be very put off. And the person from the Film Department that interviewed me was the assistant head, a man called David Martin who became my boss when I was appointed. He was a real old BBC hand but he was a fairly enlightened fo[…]
[…]into it slightly. But then Jerry got a call from Jack saying he'd liked me down to the main department or, Hey, further my career I suppose. I was an assistant, I didn't get part of that conversation. So I went down and I got working with very clever guy, a name that's not working very well known in[…]
[…]very much so. I'd done a lot to get me kickstarted. And I wanted obviously in my final year I started applying for jobs and I applied for the Trainee Assistant Producer scheme in London BBC and also a Trainee Assistant Editor. I did an interview in Manchester for BBC Manchester as an Assistant Edito[…]
[…] later story, and he comes into the picture again a little later on. So he saw me and took me on. So the age of 16, I joined the BBC as an engineer's assistant, which is, make the tea and clean the batteries in Plymouth. And I was there for four years. And I took correspondence course on City and Gu[…]
[…] had no idea that you could get a lunch when you worked in films, and we went out to Whipsnade the director driving, and on the way home, he told his assistant His name was sigalle, who later emigrated to Australia, take the car back, and he drove me into the first roundabout. It was he only recentl[…]
[…] So in 46, you were a producer/commentator? P: Well I joined television as an OB, the advertisement was what they called Assistant OB Manager. Now what that really meant was that you were jack of all trades. We were producer, presenter, commentator, stage man[…]
[…]I went to BIP I was living in Mill Hill and I used to get myself from Mill Hill to Elstree by being driven either by David Cunningham who was my assistant, or by John Rinders who was then was the Director of BIP and they were doing an enormous amount of scoring of their early silent films and J[…]
[…]levision Service]. I: Oh, they were in Bath Street! R: Bath Street, 151 Bath Street. And that was a fantastic place and I joined them as an Assistant Engineer and the duty of an Assistant Engineer was to be in the VTR [Video Tape Recorder] area so they'd be playing in, they broadcast via a[…]
