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

[…] 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[…]

[…]were concerned.  They were based in Southampton and their Programme Director was a chap called Berkeley Smith, and Berkeley Smith was an ex-BBC man and he knew how to do television properly. And I went to Southampton, I drove to Southampton and I discovered – well I had been told – that th[…]

[…] Cans[?] comics, a sort of a technical paper, a technical book for people building amateur radios and stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave.Alan Lawson: Yes.David Robson: And I built the Nipkow disk and the picture elem[…]

[…]unds like two years for Ealing... You went there in 1937 until 1939...PS. Yes.. yes.. And I liked Ealing very much... And way after the war, when the BBC formed a film unit, and I got in, they bought Ealing Studios, and it was home from home, because I went there, and one of the electricians who'd k[…]

[…]     us  is the   marking  of   the   BBC  Centenary  celebrations  in  2022. To  prepare  for  this  momentous […]

[…], so everyone’s happy, you know, and we got a page in. So absolutely amazing amount of publicity and we even ended up on, not Newsnight, the tea time BBC show with Sue Lawley, (actually it was Nationwide. PW) and er, so the film was 11 getting around. This is incredible really from nothing[…]

[…]ould only have the news if we can do something different with it. So we thought there are already two very good half hour news programmes on the BBC and on ITV, what can we do that’s different. And we decidedthat what British television needed was a longer, more analytical news which got a grip[…]