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[…] whose last major series was ‘Shock of the New’, for BBC in 1980. And so, I’ve been coming and going […]

[…] some bribery business knocking around, and some people at the BBC Billy Williams: That was in the early days, right […]

[…]ou know, that was 1977. So, I was very, very lucky as, at that time, I was probably the youngest staff cameraman anywhere in Scotland between STV and BBC because in those days they didn't have, neither STV or BBC had many crews and it was almost a case of dead men's shoes unless they invented more c[…]

[…]sp;you turning over you were saying about brown Mickey? Oh,Speaker 1  0:14  yes. Well, he, although he will, of course, I knew him from the BBC. Knew of him with BBC. I'd never met him, but he was a great friend of Margaret Harper Nelson's. So she rang me and said, do look after Brian. And[…]

[…]for the best in the end, but it was from Brighton as he eventually got the job of Coventry Hippodrome from Coventry Hippodrome, it was the Birmingham BBC, who started him broadcasting.Unknown Speaker  17:50  We, it's interesting that I mean, in terms of broadcast and we go to a load come i[…]

[…] said, "Commercial television is coming up." Had you done any BBC television as an actress, or as a director? Joan […]

[…]rk Darrol Blake  11:47  Prior to that, though there had been other television series, presumably, I mean animated things for BBC or ITV, Kent Houston  11:55  I  never did very much in the way TV series, except when I was working for Halas a[…]

[…]atre and with - as of that time - and your career as an actress. Someone came to you and said, "Commercial television is coming up." Had you done any BBC television as an actress, or as a director?Joan Kemp-Welch: Well as an actress, as I say, the one time I told you, at the Alexandria Palace w[…]

[…]were concerned.  They were based in Southampton and their Programme Director was a chap called Berkeley Smith, and Berkeley Smith was an ex-BBC man and he knew how to do television properly. And I went to Southampton, I drove to Southampton and I discovered – well I had been told – that th[…]

[…]eeping of Euston Films..." I was in seventh heaven, right? And then one day, as you know, what happened was that Brian Cowgill heard rumours that the BBC were having trouble in renewing their contract for Dallas with the Americans, the price was going up. So, without telling his own chairman apparen[…]