[…]ficult in the early '60s and I joined Anglia Television, where I spent nearly a year at Norwich on a contract. That contract ran out and I joined the BBC in 1962 as a holiday relief cameraman - as an assistant cameraman.Interviewer 2:24 Okay, where were you living? How did you get to and[…]
[…] about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there […]
[…] then we would listen to the news from Britain, the BBC news, so that was our source of information. And […]
[…]ry Jack Hawkins and detective story. And after that, it was announced at the end of that was announced that the studio was closing, being sold to the BBC. And we were tipped off. So you boys are okay, you will come with us to MGM. And that's great, got no problem. And I was the only person left in t[…]
[…]s in Peek Frean’s factory. Mm, really would have loved to work in the theatre but knew nothing about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there would be programmes going on and also a weekly pay cheque or, you know, pay packet in this. So I[…]
[…]Gaumont British News doing, again, run of the mill newsstories all over the place in England, Scotland and everywhere. And then a job came up with theBBC, I saw it advertised in the Times, so I thought I would have a go at that. So I got it. I got thisjob with Camera and BBC Television News based at[…]
[…] I wanted to do, I went to St. Martin's for evening classes on set design and actually it's Steven Bundy, I just remember his name, he worked for the BBC. Do you remember him? No..? [laughing] He was a set designer and so I did a year of that so the I had that behind me so I started going... I appli[…]
[…]s, you know, on the booze. He had to give up drink and some of his homosexual capers and whatnot.Q Talking about Kodak - what about negotiations with BBC. Did you ever get...A No, no. At that time they had appointed this Bill Barnard(?) assigned. There were odd things I did but no negotiations of an[…]
