[…], my father had a job. He worked in London with a Cable and Wireless company making telephone cable, basically. But I we had no, no hook up with with BBC, we listen to it. Listen to it on radio every, every day, basically. And when I was three and a half, the war started and and that part of London,[…]
[…]ell I prefer the broadcasters that's here. But I had a great problem trying to get in at that time. And all the ITV companies turned me down. But the BBC read through my thing and said Would I like to I then applied to the BBC to go in as the as the the man in charge of the Russian service in Bush h[…]
[…]vid ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, later BBC film cameraman. Recorded on the 23rd of the fifth, 1989 at his home in Chandler's Ford, Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side one.[break in recording]Alan[…]
[…]randmother and I attended Regent Street Polytechnic and took courses in radio communications because, I�d always been my ambition to get a job in the BBC. The reason being that next door but one to us in Acton lived a relation called Harold Kirk who was chief research engineer in the BBC. And he and[…]
[…] to a terrific start! That, it must be said, was due in large part to the fact that the audience, the local audience felt no affinity whatsoever with BBC. BBC Scotland. They didn't seem to think they catered for them in any way and then along comes this new kid on the block trying everything, giving[…]
[…]ks (laughs) Verity Lambert was my PA and - er - you can imagine Verity running - she ran - she ran the show.Q:  That was - er - ABC’s version of BBC’s ‘Monitor’  wasn’t it?00:11:34    JOE: Well - that’s a good  - it’s a good question it was the ABC’s version of ‘Monito[…]
[…]ded people at Unity and I suppose I've continued to offend people, I can't blame Unity only for that, I've offended people all over the place, at the BBC and everywhere. Norman Swallow: Johnny, does that mean you wrote a play and submitted it to Unity Johnny Speight: Yes, I wrote plays, yes, and one[…]
[…]s in the school who obviously, I had never been his treasure, and he said, I don't know what will happen to you after the army said, finish up in the BBC. I should think. And there you are. You see, they did actually know their boys. And as it happened, I didn't finish up in the BBC, but I might I h[…]
[…]ck dissolve now’. Quick dissolve six feet and Gerald Cock, who became the first director of television when the service was put into the hands of the BBC by the government at that time, came to Cricklewood to do some recording for some OBs that he was going to make. In those days you see the corpora[…]
[…] Another one. I’ve actually got a picture of myself somewhere in there [Laughter]MIKE DICK: It says you’re an extra in the crowd in BBC Bunker, is that…PETE MURRAY: BBC?MIKE DICK: BBC Bunker. That’s, That’s how its termed… PETE MURRAY: I’ve never heard […]
