[…]didn't find out until the early 1960s? All this?Philip Donnellan: Well I had a standard southern English accent. Indeed that's why I joined the BBC I was brought into the BBC as an announcer because I had an impeccable standard southern English accent and that was the accent I remember in my f[…]
[…]ovelty compendium to play the Saturday family show slot and the Late Night Show slot. At the time Tom and Jerry cartoons were gaining good ratings on BBC so I asked for ten of them in a programme and to provide a bit of variety between the non-stop mayhem of the cartoon characters’ warring I suggest[…]
[…] round table in the commissary next to the commissary I believe that's where they had all their meetings because it was a famous round table with the BBC they took it over a table was still and was still there. Yeah. Did they. Yes.SPEAKER: M5No I had personally no contact with Balkan at all except v[…]
[…]lark? No.
Jim Clark?
No not Jim, he wasn’t around then.
No. I was thinking... Well, there was Robert Clark[ph] who was editor[??] at[??] the BBC[??-8:42].
No, it wasn’t... No. His name’s... I can see his face but I can’t remember his name.
Not to worry, because it will be a matter of […]
[…]But he had a similar ambivalence with television: he could see that some of the television that was being produced was important, particularly by the BBC, and we should take some television but on a highly selective basis. He was very, very, firm about that and he wasn’t terribly keen on taking the […]
[…] television that was being produced was important, particularly by the BBC, and we should take some television but on a […]
[…]sp;I: The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Sir Paul Fox. One time Managing Director, BBC Television, Yorkshire Television. Interviewing Norman Swallow. Recorded on the 24th of March 1993. Side 1.First and foremost, wh[…]
[…]Are you strictly freelance now or? Yes, you don't have any affiliation to accomplishSpeaker 2 19:37 freelance until I eventually got to a BBC, right?Speaker 1 19:41 I wonder. I can't remember who produced great day. The production company was it two cities,Speaker 2 19:[…]
[…]ave been had some connection with the army or something anyway then it was a question of the voice over the coronation of Richard Dimbleby.SPEAKER: M4BBC wanted to march. So OK we got Richard down played overseas. Ha. Yes. The moment of crowning has come. No really I should have said. And he put his[…]
[…]Monte Slater and others were involved. Anyway, so Rosa said, don't give up your writing, whereas Edgar ansty later when I wrote wrote a broadcast for BBC, on what, on the Cotswolds, from the point of view was making a film about the Cotswolds was furious with me and said, You should have asked my pe[…]
