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[…]s in the school who obviously, I had never been his treasure, and he said, I don't know what will happen to you after the army said, finish up in the BBC. I should think. And there you are. You see, they did actually know their boys. And as it happened, I didn't finish up in the BBC, but I might I h[…]

[…]randmother and I attended Regent Street Polytechnic and took courses in radio communications because, I�d always been my ambition to get a job in the BBC. The reason being that next door but one to us in Acton lived a relation called Harold Kirk who was chief research engineer in the BBC. And he and[…]

[…] always been my ambition to get a job in the BBC. The reason being that next door but one to […]

[…]  What happened when you left National Service after two years? NEVILLE WORTMAN:   I came out of National Service and at that time the BBC … it was all in black and white of course … the editor of a local newspaper had got a contract to do short stories on television and so I illustra[…]

[…]ch was 30 weeks in London. And then thought I would like to go back to the West Country, where my family were, but my father suggested I apply to the BBC in London. I thought of applying to independent television that was just starting in Plymouth under Peter Cadbury. Oh no, apply to the BBC. So I d[…]

[…]ing up ideas for books only it's probably quicker. I don't see why shouldn't be I able to do that, I mean it might be quite interesting. Actually the BBC represented a kind ofNorman Swallow: publisherDavid Attenborough: Well, more than that, it represented a kind of university really, it represented[…]

[…] that, I mean it might be quite interesting. Actually the BBC represented a kind of Norman Swallow: publisher David Attenborough: […]

[…]he guy called Bill picking will be yours. And a slightly older group of people. There was a guy called Colin Cheeseman, who went on later to work for BBC television. And he also went off with when he was from BBC, he was there for a long time as a senior designer. And he, the name escapes me again, […]

[…]g the films, was, publicity. It seemed to me, there’s no point in making the damn things if nobody’s going to watch ’em. So I always made sure at the BBC, I rang up the publicity people and I always made sure that the press got copies and all that stuff. And, chatted people up and tried to get showi[…]