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[…]s postgraduate academic work, got scholarship at Oxford but supervisor left for another job. Looked at alternative careers: Guardian, Unilever, Ford, BBC all said Yes. 8.15 -                     […]
[…]wing who’s now Lord Orr-Ewing who had been a Wing Commander in radar during the war, and some faceless wonder from the appointments department of the BBC, I can’t even remember who it was, I think it might have been Jack Nott but I can’t remember. Anyway, there were two vacancies and I think t[…]
[…]t at all but I was very much in the shadow of it, in the ‘wake’ if you like of The World at War, and always had been fascinated by it. And unlike the BBC for instance, when they were making The Great War series in the mid-sixties, where they only bought a brief licence for the archive all of which e[…]
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[…]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[…]
[…]il Brown, who was the mixer I knew from Kay's West End. And Cyril came in there, and he promised, oh, we'll do this. We'll do that, and we'll get our BBC work in which didn't actually happen or not much of it happened. And after six months, I had a telephone call on a Thursday night from Jim Brown, […]
[…]y Hickey: Yeah, they did say on one of the newsletters now and again, they say, "If you know of anybody that you feel..." Well John had been with the BBC during the war years and had done a lot of work with us at MGM before he came up to us as a freelance. So I put his name forward and anyway, they […]
[…]ch was 30 weeks in London. And then thought I would like to go back to the West Country, where my family were, but my father suggested I apply to the BBC in London. I thought of applying to independent television that was just starting in Plymouth under Peter Cadbury. Oh no, apply to the BBC. So I d[…]
