[…] when the service was put into the hands of the BBC by the government at that time, came to Cricklewood […]
[…] never be repeated, governs his approach.  This is how the ground-breaking BBC documentary series, ‘The  Family’ was filmed in 1974. An approach […]
[…] studios, a three-way tussle had been in progress between the BBC, the Post Office, and John Logie Baird, over the […]
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[…]e seventies and eighties. There was a lot of 16mm film being used for broadcast television.AM: Yes. News film was all 16mm reversal. For example, the BBC largely used 16mm, and ultimately negative film for film location sequences in dramas and so on.PF: Yes. Obviously, that gave it a more natural lo[…]
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[…] It was great! It was great! But it was done because of the afterglow of Doctor Finlay's Casebook. We weren't allowed to call it Casebook because the BBC had copyright to that so we just called it Dr. Finlay and that was a huge success. But that was Programme Maker's gut instinct and it was right. I[…]
[…]owing you around, you do radio work as well, don't you? R: Yes, I was six and a half years on Radio Clyde and two and a half years with Saga and BBC, I used to do BBC in the sixties, going in to the seventies, I used to do radio shows for the BBC and so on and I did West Sound down at Ayr. I op[…]