[…]ave made some effort to do it. You were happy with your work?Norman Fisher: Yes indeed. At one stage I was wondering if it would be any better in the BBC but, anyway, so much short filming work was coming along I dropped that one. Just as well I did because the BBC ultimately has shut down its film […]
[…] of going there was of course it enabled me to get my ticket ACT didn't have jurisdiction but they were happy enough to recruit membership from, from BBC Television.  So I promptly applied for my ticket and got it, in round figures I was at 13000 my membership number. In terms of being a c[…]
[…]folio, which I did and he got in touch with Roy Oxley2 who had been a fellow art director, now at this time, which by now was 1951 he was at the BBC. Now the head of design there at that time was Peter Bax3 and they, now what happened, oh I think it was the usual thing, they said apply, an[…]
[…]rman Swallow  0:04  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Richard Levin, head of television design for the BBC interview on normal swallow, recorded on the third of September 1991. side one okay. First of all, when and where were you born?Richard Levin &nbs[…]
[…]ating things like trying to get some measure of agreement on connectors. And, again, the industry didn't want to know In fact, it turned out that the BBC was divided internally almost equally into two halves. One did it one way and one did it the other face of that what's good I would say that the c[…]
[…], my father had a job. He worked in London with a Cable and Wireless company making telephone cable, basically. But I we had no, no hook up with with BBC, we listen to it. Listen to it on radio every, every day, basically. And when I was three and a half, the war started and and that part of London,[…]
[…] the Boultings’ office therewas a nice big television where we kept up to date with the cricket. And if, during the morning they, for some reason the BBC cut off the cricket in order to announce thatthe War had started somewhere, it was ‘Darling, ring the BBC, ask them why have they stopped the cric[…]
