[…]ts of people available and this in turn gave lots of work to lots of people. Then later I'll never forget they invented Colourtran. I was at the BBC Ealing and a man came with Colourtran and said look two kilowats of light in that little thing, I didn't believe him. He lifted it up with one han[…]
[…] eve n ended up on, not Newsnight, the tea time BBC show with Sue Lawley, (actually it was Nationwide. PW) […]
[…] 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[…]
