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[…]ee again?" I said, "Well, no. You hire me out," I said, "I want money coming in each month, you see" - which they did and er...then, all of a sudden, BBC rang me up...er...a gentleman er who I'd never heard of, a Mr Dale Struther[?] and said could I possibly help them out to come up on a Saturday an[…]

[…]actor sometimes to read the minimalcommentary. Yeah.Can we stop for a second year just because I feel yes. It's….SRAt the end of the 80s you left the BBC, having been there a long time, and set up your ownproduction company. Can you tell me why you did that?JBWell. I remember it was very much agains[…]

[…]rman Swallow  0:04  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Richard Levin, head of television design for the BBC interview on normal swallow, recorded on the third of September 1991. side one okay. First of all, when and where were you born?Richard Levin &nbs[…]

[…] matter.It was after my demob in 46 that I got my first permanent job which was BBC Radio. Stephen Peet: While you were at school and Keeble College were you a […]

[…] lieu of the money that they owed me. But the whole point was that during - when I first got this assignment from Spot News, they asked me to contact BBC news to work out and to get a liaison agreement between Spot and the BBC. This was in '52. And the BBC then, their newsreel was a magazine program[…]

[…]st year with re-sits and I think it became apparent that it wasn't my thing, university, so my Dad knew a guy at the bank who knew of somebody at the BBC, John Byres, who was the Operations Manager at the BBC at the time so I went through and had a chat to John Byres and, fortunately, because I was […]

[…]college I was … went to the careers office and they suggested me for two basic jobs, and one was a research oficer at Equity and one was a trainee in BBC radio, and I applied for both and got down to the last two of the Equity job, but i was, you know, all I had was an academic degree I had absolute[…]

[…]f times in the book of short stories. So that was one aspect of her life. In order to keep us here and make a living, she managed to get a job at the BBC in Bush House, which in those days broadcast to the Far East. So she used to broadcast in Hindi and Urdu at £25 a week. My father was not allowed […]

[…]s in Peek Frean’s factory. Mm, really would have loved to work in the theatre but knew nothing about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there would be programmes going on and also a weekly pay cheque or, you know, pay packet in this. So I[…]