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[…]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[…]

[…] 39:46  Were you the only camera man on that? Oh yeah, I was theSpeaker 1  39:50  only cameraman for the news rivers. For us, the BBC sent his cameraman, but he packed up. I repaired. Camera for him at Milan, because his camera packed up, and he was the only camera he got, and he[…]

[…]t at all but I was very much in the shadow of it, in the ‘wake’ if you like of The World at War, and always had been fascinated by it. And unlike the BBC for instance, when they were making The Great War series in the mid-sixties, where they only bought a brief licence for the archive all of which e[…]