John Daly

[…]ike that. And then I saw that I had in my mind that I'd like to be a cameraman. And so I wrote it while I was at school in sixth form, I wrote to the BBC and said, Are there any vacancies as an assistant cameraman? And they said, Are you too young, you got to be 2021 because you'll be living out of […]

Louise Willcox

[…]ht, let's see if I can't get some more money, see if we can cover a bit more anyway. went looking for a job for more money and got interviewed by the BBC and was offered a job a secretarial job for less money. At which point my mum said, Look, Louise, you've always wanted to work in broadcasting, I'[…]

Moira Armstrong

[…]ays did Shakespeare in the garden every summer because we had an English teacher who herself was an actress and, and did a lot of broadcasting on The BBC in, in Aberdeen. So I played Portia in The Merchant Of Venice when before I left school.And did that continue at university?Yes, it did, yes.Moira[…]

Ann Turner

[…]f art school at Farnham, and I should say that painting is also a thing in my family. I wasn't painting but I was being painted. And I applied to the BBC and it shot through very quickly. It was how lucky I suddenly got this invitation from one called Gertrude Leonard and met John O Bride? not at th[…]

Eileen Diss

[…]folio, which I did and he got in touch with Roy Oxley2 who had been a fellow art director, now at this time, which by now was 1951 he was at the BBC. Now the head of design there at that time was Peter Bax3 and they, now what happened, oh I think it was the usual thing, they said apply, an[…]

Waseem Mahmood

[…]ik mean? Why should we East east, okay.Speaker 1  4:36  That lends itself to something that probably happens later on in your career at the BBC and the names of the programmes you worked on, I think. Tell me about going into university. What did you study? Yes.Speaker 2  4:52  I […]

Carol Owens

[…]me kickstarted. And I wanted obviously in my final year I started applying for jobs and I applied for the Trainee Assistant Producer scheme in London BBC and also a Trainee Assistant Editor. I did an interview in Manchester for BBC Manchester as an Assistant Editor. And I think I went to Yorkshire T[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]f the screen and you would come in the bottom. I suppose it was a form of wipe but a rather crude form of wipe. We were at Alexandra Palace until the BBC rightly decided enough was enough and they signed an agreement with ME us use the Metron and I found myself out of work.Arthur Graham: What date w[…]
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