[…]ry Jack Hawkins and detective story. And after that, it was announced at the end of that was announced that the studio was closing, being sold to the BBC. And we were tipped off. So you boys are okay, you will come with us to MGM. And that's great, got no problem. And I was the only person left in t[…]
[…]s in Peek Frean’s factory. Mm, really would have loved to work in the theatre but knew nothing about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there would be programmes going on and also a weekly pay cheque or, you know, pay packet in this. So I[…]
[…]interview in Manchester, in doo doo doo doo doo doo in June of 1982. And it was just the the onset of the Falklands War. And I was asked to come into BBC worship? studio in manager in Manchester. And I said all that this was at the time of in the retrospective of dad's work would you've gone up from[…]
[…]s Film Foundation films are doing well now, they've been sold to Russia and lots of places.BE: I'm sure there are a lot of very good ones.BA: And the BBC have been showing a lot. But they of course stick mainly to the colour ones,BE: Ours weren't colour at all.BA: Were any of the pictures Mr Baxter […]
[…]at one could do that otherwise you could never have worked those hours,Speaker 1  27:56  did you because then Ealing folded and sold to the BBC, and then I believe you went on to Pinewood on TV series.Speaker 2  28:14  Well, when Ealing were first packing up, I've been tipped off[…]
[…]chnical infrastructure of three telephone exchanges for a phone for each students' residence, they had a broadcast radio studio which was designed to BBC standards with PPMs with Janet Fields with all the bits you would expect to find in an actual broadcast studio. They had a theatre with proper lig[…]
[…]r radar side, he was an absolute BrainBox. Very, very clever. And we both got demobbed more or less at the same time, I managed to get a job with the BBC. And Gordon went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both we[…]
[…]ou know, that was 1977. So, I was very, very lucky as, at that time, I was probably the youngest staff cameraman anywhere in Scotland between STV and BBC because in those days they didn't have, neither STV or BBC had many crews and it was almost a case of dead men's shoes unless they invented more c[…]
[…]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[…]
