Dicky Leeman

[…] early 1950s he moved into television production for both the BBC and ATV, specialising particularly in musical variety shows. Notable […]

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.Moir[…]

Peter Ansorge

[…]ue to the fact that that writers have territories. And television does tend to be not dominated by the Metropolitan voice inevitably, that's what the BBC was. That's where a lot of writers are. So you suddenly have Alan Plater writing out of how you have Tom Haddaway. Riding out of Newcastle. You se[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]g with him once much later on in television, when Bill Lyon-Shaw and I were working - Bill Lyon-Shaw was the producer, I was the floor manager at the BBC, and we used to a show called Life Begins at Sixty, and everybody in the cast was over sixty, and everybody in the audience was over sixty! [laugh[…]

BEHP Bulletin no 2 June 2020

[…] She can be contacted at sue.malden@b tinternet.com New Collection of BBC Pebble Mill Interviews We have recently received a major […]

Lindsay Anderson

[…]Film Unit, they didn’t expect me to be a member of the Union. But when I did together with a friend, Guy Brenton, who was working at that time at the BBC and I'd known at Oxford, he wanted to make a film about deaf children and he came to me with the idea and said would I help him because I had had […]

Reg Sutton

[…]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[…]

Reg Sutton

[…] always been my ambition to get a job in the BBC. The reason being that next door but one to […]
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