[…]e never known anybody shoot with such low ratios. I mean when we went out shooting Peter shot the shot and that was it there was no messing about. No BBC 40 takes. It was just what he knew exactly what he wanted it was all absolutely planned that went in his head not on paper. And eventually they th[…]
[…]chnical infrastructure of three telephone exchanges for a phone for each students' residence, they had a broadcast radio studio which was designed to BBC standards with PPMs with Janet Fields with all the bits you would expect to find in an actual broadcast studio. They had a theatre with proper lig[…]
[…]But he had a similar ambivalence with television: he could see that some of the television that was being produced was important, particularly by the BBC, and we should take some television but on a highly selective basis. He was very, very, firm about that and he wasn’t terribly keen on taking the […]
[…] program. But it was his program and I was caught in between. I never bet bit. It was kind of a mediator and there was one program we wanted to do on BBC announcers. We had Mac Hobley . Sylvia Peters I think it was very good. And we did a whole program based on BBC announcements and we we had a lot […]
[…]plished , so I'm told,  classical pianist and a friend of our family, a man called Harry S. Pepper, who at that time, was a producer at the BBC, and he was the producer of the minstrel show, The Black and White Minstrel Show. And he decided to take this show out on tour. And when he heard […]
[…]Page 5Tape 17Michaela Denis and their film series was called On Safari and I think about two years previously to that they had won the BBC award for the best factual programme, probably in 1956 or 4 or something like that. Although television in those days was only black and white and[…]
[…]ew. So we were thrown out and I went back to sea in the Merchant Navy until 1925, after which time I was rather tired of the sea, so I applied to the BBC. They took me on as an engineer, and I was with them for three years. Then I got involved in a squabble, nothing to do with me at all, but I put m[…]
[…]orwich union through the Merton Park Studios pension fund. Then I was out of work for a short while after the studio closed, and I had friends in the BBC projection department, and I told them what I was out of work. And they said, Would I like to join their projection team? And at that particular t[…]
[…]hought it was a contribution to the Commonwealth Games, which was opened by David Steele MP at the time. Steve Morrison did a whole thing on this, on BBC Television and BBC Radio and got sacked by the BBC for doing it because he hadn't told them what it was about. They didn't realise it was a protes[…]
