Rodney Giesler

Very enjoyable to do – details. He also did some work for the BBC on a programme called and View & Teach about teaching English. Writing commentaries was easy money: he also wrote plays at this ti…

Cyril Frankel

…documentaries, Frankel supervised some of the films that were broadcast for the BBC arts series Monitor (1958–65), among which was the first ballet programme to be filmed and edited to the c…

Leslie J Wheeler

…. He ran his own small company making various items.Later in 1952 he joined the BBC’s Planning and Installation Department, (P & I) working on various equipment for the Film Department. He then ba…

Sheelagh Rees

… You. A series of court-room dramas;Moonstrike;Kipling.[Handwritten note says:] BBC Hostel, Grosvenor Square. Y.

A F (Peter) Birch

… career he was a dubbing mixer at GB Instructional at Elstree and later for the BBC on a freelance basis. In this brief interview with Alan Lawson, Birch talks mainly about the early part of his caree…

John Trumper

… Rank Audiovisual – good to work on. He also worked on four series of films for BBC English – training films for teaching the language abroad. He also worked on a navy recruiting film called All of On…

William MacQuitty

.US troops in Ulster, 1942 .19 Metre Band, 1941, [about] BBC’s service to India,(self) with Sir [William] Beveridge, Megan Lloyd George, Dr Narayan Menon, Leon Goosens, Dr .Edith Summerskill 1943

Teddy Darvas

…r [William Hornbeck] £100 a week." In 1938 that was a fortune.Darvas joined the BBC in 1942 as holiday relief, and with his knowledge of languages ("English, Hungarian, German and a little French") he…