Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

…London in 1918, Barbara 'Bimbi' Harris started her career at the BBC in 1939 as a trainee recording engineer, at a time when major industries were recruiting women in large numbers…

Albert Critoph

Merton Park studios on photographic sound production. To BBC as holiday relief working in all the many BBC outlets. 

Peter Sargent

Peter Sargent was a notable BBC cameraman He began his career in 1934, aged 18, as a clapper-boy at Lime Grove studios, Shepherd's Bush, in London. Two of his earliest films were Alfred Hitchcock's Th…

Muriel Cole

Weston Drury. We had Anne Donne from the BBC,Isobel Davie from Variety Bookings, Barry Forde (now – 1988- from stage and films head ofCentral TV)The one thing we lacked was adequate office space for a…

Bryan Langley

…sp;Pinewood before the lure of the television industry brought him to BBC Ealing in 1958. He photographed the television series The History of Mr Polly (1959), Bleak Hous…

Philip Bonham-Carter

[…] never be repeated, governs his approach.  This is how the ground-breaking BBC documentary series, ‘The  Family’ was filmed in 1974. An approach […]