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[…] the Evening Standard, the campaigns in the newspapers. But the BBC was very, very popular. The Brains Trust with Professor […]

[…]and he doesn’t like women, and he really liked me, andHe was my patron, to me I think ... he got me out of the into being a Director in the BBC.I love him, love him.So, you know, I’m very fond of Ned, or was, as he’s now, asRENÉE GLYNNE: We’re drinking. Or I’m, I mean, you are not dri[…]

[…]Page 5Tape 17Michaela Denis and their film series was called On Safari and I think about two years previously to that they had won the BBC award for the best factual programme, probably in 1956 or 4 or something like that. Although television in those days was only black and white and[…]

[…]cameras, I don't know, but we were still modifying them. On occasion, I.Unknown Speaker  40:03  Yeah, and we also, we also did work for the BBC newsreel, didn't we?Unknown Speaker  40:09  You did maintenance, yes, because can I remember you had a Mitchell camera with a sound head[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]n, it's really a totally different world that it was then 1959 I hadn't even taken my finals. They came around the universities. They,  the BBC came around  the universities recruiting people, and I happened to be walking through one of the halls of the university. And there was […]

[…]oor of this pub I could hear myself playing the piano. I thought, I'm going crackers! But I wasn't, it was the same soundtrack being broadcast by the BBC.Roy Fowler: Extraordinary. And you recognised your touch?Eddie Dryhurst: Well I naturally recognised the tune right away and, I reckoned how funny[…]

[…] of the Design Department into being a Director in the BBC . REN ÉE GLYNNE: I love him, love him. […]

[…]l received?Jill Craigie: Yes, they were. They made money. And then of course there was the Evening Standard, the campaigns in the newspapers. But the BBC was very, very popular. The Brains Trust with Professor Joad and ... have you ever heard any of those?Interviewer (unidentified): Yes. Can I go ba[…]