[…]wing who’s now Lord Orr-Ewing who had been a Wing Commander in radar during the war, and some faceless wonder from the appointments department of the BBC, I can’t even remember who it was, I think it might have been Jack Nott but I can’t remember. Anyway, there were two vacancies and I think t[…]
[…]ied on, perhaps in a slightly lower sense. But then when I got into my looking for a job or getting through school and going to work, and joining the BBC, the fact that I actually had a portfolio of stuff that I had already done, although I originally worked for news, so it wasn't so relevant. Inter[…]
[…]? And I can't remember having much advice from them. But, and I don't know where I got the idea from but we must get on to it quickly, I wrote to the BBC and asked them if I could have a job in the BBC, because like all sixteen, seventeen year olds, you don't know what you want to do. And I thought […]
[…] must get on to it quickly, I wrote to the BBC and asked them if I could have a job […]
[…] What happened when you left National Service after two years? NEVILLE WORTMAN: I came out of National Service and at that time the BBC … it was all in black and white of course … the editor of a local newspaper had got a contract to do short stories on television and so I illustra[…]
[…] whose last major series was ‘Shock of the New’, for BBC in 1980. And so, I’ve been coming and going […]
[…] it's like this, this angel is going up to heaven. And it's very Ken Russell ish. And I think on the basis for that film, he got his first job at the BBC. And another film that was extremely impressive was by Peter Wilkins, it was called forgotten faces. And it was about the uprising against the aga[…]
Alan Lawson 0:05 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Michael Colomb, BBC TV sound engineer, dubbing mixer and director of better sound of Endell Street interview. Alan Lawson, recorded on the 12th of June 1995. side one you know, first and foremost, wh[…]
[…]time, and then I saw this advertisement in The Times for an assistant secretary to the Director-General ofNancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 8the BBC. And I said to Kenneth Clark, ‘I’m going to apply for this’. And he said, ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake, you can’t do that. I mean Sir William Haley isn’[…]
