[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] form of wipe. We were at Alexandra Palace until the BBC rightly decided enough was enough and they signed an […]
[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
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[…] of her early life and how she first joined the BBC and went on to become one of the most […]
[…]Gaumont British News doing, again, run of the mill newsstories all over the place in England, Scotland and everywhere. And then a job came up with theBBC, I saw it advertised in the Times, so I thought I would have a go at that. So I got it. I got thisjob with Camera and BBC Television News based at[…]
