Michael Aldridge

[…]ficult in the early '60s and I joined Anglia Television, where I spent nearly a year at Norwich on a contract. That contract ran out and I joined the BBC in 1962 as a holiday relief cameraman - as an assistant cameraman.Interviewer  2:24  Okay, where were you living? How did you get to and[…]

Charles Picken

[…]ovelty compendium to play the Saturday family show slot and the Late Night Show slot. At the time Tom and Jerry cartoons were gaining good ratings on BBC so I asked for ten of them in a programme and to provide a bit of variety between the non-stop mayhem of the cartoon characters’ warring I suggest[…]

Roy Lockett

[…]e union importantly, which were about the future of the film industry, which were about the future of television, should we have a second, should the BBC have a second channel, should they have a second channel. What should we do with Channel Four, should we have Channel Four and, you know, politica[…]

Christine Whittaker

[…]er and the lengthy transcription is courtesy of Sandra D. Ward.Christine began by re-capping how her life in archive began:“Around 1966, I joined the BBC quite by chance because I did languages at University and I wanted to be an interpreter. I couldn’t get a job, no-one did straight out of universi[…]
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