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[…]ppose about 1963 as far as color started I forget exactly what it was that BBC toured going on but later than that I think that a little later that ye[…]

[…] hardly what you would call a trade union. In the BBC we never got anywhere. We had members there but […]

[…]Because- I thought that was extraordinary, because the figures show that you left school in ’76 , you left Ireland in ‘76 and you actually joined the BBC in 1976 and I thought that was a kind of an extraordinary boast, but never any thought then of university or staying on? GM:   2:44[…]

[…] took French and German and then lastly Spanish which has stood me in good stead because I ended up when I left school in the European service of the BBC for a year and a half before I was called up at 18 and a half. When the war finished, I was seconded by my regiment to become the Unterhaltungsche[…]

[…] but there had been a big gap in between, I don’t know, anyway I didn’t.AL: Your children, have they gone into films?DA: No, but Caroline is with the BBC in radio, Caroline is the editor of a programme called Analysis which comes on Thursday night and Friday morning on Radio 4 and it's rather an upd[…]

[…] gone into films? DA: No, but Caroline is with the BBC in radio, Caroline is the editor of a programme […]

[…]ed to do things more than before but before we come into the country. And he was going to shoot a film or later whine about Lake Geneva coming up for BBC Television on his own back in his own company and he asked us did we not. Contact we did the shooting.SPEAKER: F8And not the worst. When I was in.[…]

[…]ome in on it. Dut in those days the ABS was hardly what you would call a trade union. In the BEC vie never got anywhere. We had members there but the BBC would never really acknowledge this gave us. any rights and I remember a famous meeting. There was a letter from the director general or the assis[…]

[…] lessons. SF: Yes. And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC. SF: Yes. Started as a floor manager. SF: Yes. […]

[…]on’t get a lot of parts with an accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was about... How old w[…]