Esther Harris

[…]sion hasn’t actually got to have its films censored, you know, they can show any film any time they want to. They don’tever show the certificate, the BBC has never shown a censor certificate in sixty years.No, I suppose not. Anyhow.And thousands of films, you know, but they should do and they occasi[…]

Ron Goodwin

[…];24:13  Well, I mean, that's an exam. I can't remember what the others were. Anyway, while I was doing all this, I was also broadcasting for the BBC. I mean, I don't know. I found the time for all this, really, you could do it now, you know. And I was doing a weekly show called Variety Playhous[…]

Mike Hodges

[…]me -  all the commercial companies that overstaffed to begin with, and they were now shedding staff. So it was even worse and I'd applied to the BBC to get a job as a trainee cameraman and failed that. I mean, I, you know, they'd ask if you're a member of a camera club, or I mean, it was bizarr[…]

Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…]itish. I certainly could remember what was called the Polish Corridor at Gaumont British, and later of course I worked there a lot because it was the BBC television as you know after Ally Pally, Alexandra Palace that is. And now we're into Ealing I don't think I went all that often. No, I don't thin[…]

Aida Young (nee Cohen)

[…] I think that if I was starting and I wanted to go into the industry, I would go into television.  I would get trained by a television company - BBC or you know - and then try to be creative, direct if I could or produce, you know, because if you are with a company then you know you are going t[…]
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