Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]and chippies and classrooms benefit as well. However, for me, it was absolutely marvellous because it was the greatest training ground apart from the BBC, I suppose the crown Film Unit, andUnknown Speaker  9:11  I'm working toRobert Angel  9:16  I was working with an editor calle[…]

Bernard Ponsonby

[…]come and work for STV in the run up to the next election." Didn't hear anything from David Scott for several months but in the meantime people at the BBC had said, "We would like you to come and work for us!" And so, eventually what happened is I went to work in a freelance capacity with BBC Radio S[…]

Thomas Michael Bond

[…]advertisement in the local paper saying want is somebody interested in wireless so I wrote so off. And to my amazement I got her letter back with the BBC heading and it was the BBC at that time were erecting low power transmitters all over the country which in the event of any craft coming over labo[…]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…]and back to front. They were a very short of cameramen in those days.RF: They were the old Emitron cameras.BH: That's right, but I did every job. The BBC were very good to me because I was a vision mixer and I said after two years well I have learnt that, what can I do now? Then I was put onto sound[…]

John Frame

[…] out of the window! But we all coped and it was fine. But the best joy I had at STV was a Director called Dougie Moodie. Douglas Moodie. He came from BBC to STV and it was Ibsen's The Wild Duck, the play. I'd seen it at the Festival and Douglas's interpretation of it, television-wise, was unbelievab[…]

Donald Wilson

[…]away Italy's real got the money from unbelievable. They arrived from Central Europe. And in no time they're gonna engage officers nearly opposite the BBC out there important and start making making movies. Anyway, I went ahead to go and see him for my employment. And he said to me, and I assure you […]

David Robson

[…] stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, […]

Gordon Courcha

[…] and actually ended up giving me my career.Unknown Speaker  5:53  When I finished the three yearsUnknown Speaker  5:58  that BBC had lost a lot of staff to ITV, of course, because there was nowhere else to recruit them from. So I joined the BBC.Unknown Speaker  6:09 &nb[…]
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