[…]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[…]
[…]il Brown, who was the mixer I knew from Kay's West End. And Cyril came in there, and he promised, oh, we'll do this. We'll do that, and we'll get our BBC work in which didn't actually happen or not much of it happened. And after six months, I had a telephone call on a Thursday night from Jim Brown, […]
[…]r radar side, he was an absolute BrainBox. Very, very clever. And we both got demobbed more or less at the same time, I managed to get a job with the BBC. And Gordon went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both we[…]
[…]chnical infrastructure of three telephone exchanges for a phone for each students' residence, they had a broadcast radio studio which was designed to BBC standards with PPMs with Janet Fields with all the bits you would expect to find in an actual broadcast studio. They had a theatre with proper lig[…]
[…] program. But it was his program and I was caught in between. I never bet bit. It was kind of a mediator and there was one program we wanted to do on BBC announcers. We had Mac Hobley . Sylvia Peters I think it was very good. And we did a whole program based on BBC announcements and we we had a lot […]
[…]ied on, perhaps in a slightly lower sense. But then when I got into my looking for a job or getting through school and going to work, and joining the BBC, the fact that I actually had a portfolio of stuff that I had already done, although I originally worked for news, so it wasn't so relevant. Inter[…]
