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[…] matter.It was after my demob in 46 that I got my first permanent job which was BBC Radio. Stephen Peet: While you were at school and Keeble College were you a […]

[…] I was the only cameraman for the Newsreel Association, the BBC sent a cameraman but he packed up, I repaired […]

[…] you give us a bit of your sort of early educational background?I think my very first school was a convent that no longer exists; in fact I think the BBC had kind of built around there in Maida Vale. Then I went to a preparatory school then I went to, it was called then, Paddington and Maida Vale Hi[…]

[…]me kickstarted. And I wanted obviously in my final year I started applying for jobs and I applied for the Trainee Assistant Producer scheme in London BBC and also a Trainee Assistant Editor. I did an interview in Manchester for BBC Manchester as an Assistant Editor. And I think I went to Yorkshire T[…]

Alan Lawson  0:05  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Michael Colomb, BBC TV sound engineer, dubbing mixer and director of better sound of Endell Street interview. Alan Lawson, recorded on the 12th of June 1995. side one you know, first and foremost, wh[…]

[…]st year with re-sits and I think it became apparent that it wasn't my thing, university, so my Dad knew a guy at the bank who knew of somebody at the BBC, John Byres, who was the Operations Manager at the BBC at the time so I went through and had a chat to John Byres and, fortunately, because I was […]

[…] or anything, it's just that it became a possibility in a way that I'd never thought, you know, that, that there was before, you know, looking at the BBC, and so on, you know, and in those times very, very difficult to get into TV, you had to have a union ticket. And most of the directors who were w[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]? And I can't remember having much advice from them. But, and I don't know where I got the idea from but we must get on to it quickly, I wrote to the BBC and asked them if I could have a job in the BBC, because like all sixteen, seventeen year olds, you don't know what you want to do. And I thought […]

[…] must get on to it quickly, I wrote to the BBC and asked them if I could have a job […]