[…]ers by fillers what we meant was what you'd say commercials today. But they had a style that was different from commercials. And they were run by the BBC and the and and ITV at the time. a certain amount of time was was given as a sort of goodwill gesture also because I think they didn't sell all th[…]
[…]ed to go. It was upstairs, I’m not sure if it wasn’t called the Lyric Club. I was asked to do a broadcast at St George’s Hall, well when I got to the BBC, they looked at the performers’ list, they said everything in St Georges has been cancelled - so far as I know, I had my rehearsal there-, I thoug[…]
[…]Lom [uncredited but present. DS] and Peter Ustinov were in the cast.Robert Beatty: A very small part whatever it was, because I might have joined the BBC at that time, I was working at night and living in London, eventually I got moved out to Evesham after the BBC got bombed, but that was towards th[…]
[…] in 13 languages and I got the translators from the BBC, whatever language came up RF : You're based where? […]
[…] we mark the 50th anniversary of the transformation of the BBC’s Light Programme into Radios 1 and 2; and of […]
[…] have been determined by the requirements of working for the BBC. Some years ago the BBC published a list of […]
[…]ion rights. But then Christopher decided that that's not what we would do this time round. I think because there was a feeling in the Museum that the BBC had perhaps not agreed to the kind of deal that they should have for The Great War series although quite a lot of money continued to come in from […]
[…]r by 9 ‘o’ clock, live. DB: Extraordinary. GG: So I got, I did that and then by that time I was at Westminster. There was a time – yes, the BBC were looking for someone to play Richard the Second – as a boy, in a thing called March of the Peasants, and they saw me and they wanted me to do […]
[…]small films, mainly one reelers which they send to all over the world. We made the foreign version in 13 languages and I got the translators from the BBC, whatever language came upRF: You're based where? Are they still at Pinewood?LK: In BeaconsfieldRF: Well take us through typical operation then. T[…]
[…] the Boultings’ office therewas a nice big television where we kept up to date with the cricket. And if, during the morning they, for some reason the BBC cut off the cricket in order to announce thatthe War had started somewhere, it was ‘Darling, ring the BBC, ask them why have they stopped the cric[…]
