Sydney Samuelson

[…]sspenny (?) Road Hendon and then I had a whole room - for the - to keep the equipment in. And that was when I would have first been in touch with the BBC would have been would, have been from the spare bedroom at 4 Cresspenny Road (?) That’s where you would have phoned me or I would have phoned you.[…]

Peter Suschitzky

[…]today.  This is the voice of Paul Frith on the 8th June 2018. So, if we can start by talking a little bit about where your interest in film and photography developed and some of your background in cinematography.PS: Yes, well I was brought up with … from the beginning with photography[…]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]and chippies and classrooms benefit as well. However, for me, it was absolutely marvellous because it was the greatest training ground apart from the BBC, I suppose the crown Film Unit, andUnknown Speaker  9:11  I'm working toRobert Angel  9:16  I was working with an editor calle[…]

Val Guest

[…]ed out to be a very clever lady.RF: They all had a talent of arts, Peter Rogers, Betty BoxVG: Otherwise, I never went back to the Bush again till the BBC did a thing on me. And I had to go back to the Bush and film on the very stage we worked on and my god that brought back memories, this is where t[…]

Richard Marden

[…]d I said, Oh, all right. I'll see it. It very kind. And john showed it to him. And Jimmy, of course, had lots of contact. And Jimmy got john into the BBC, for monitorAlan Legard  42:16  is right, that's how that's that's how you use the link. And that's how that Yeah, that's right.Well don[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]f the screen and you would come in the bottom. I suppose it was a form of wipe but a rather crude form of wipe. We were at Alexandra Palace until the BBC rightly decided enough was enough and they signed an agreement with ME us use the Metron and I found myself out of work.Arthur Graham: What date w[…]

Pat Jackson

[…] expositional films.John Legard: Hmm.Pat Jackson: ...You know...Stuart Legg at that time was doing 'Voice of Britain'...but 'Voice of Britain' on the BBC is merely... there's no story... it's merely the camera, sort of, dipping in the various departments at the BBC, getting a vague impression, sort […]

Philip Bonham-Carter

[…]he experience because you haven’t got the ticket. And the only way into the union at that stage was either via the labs, the film laboratories or the BBC. So that was clearly a very important thing to do. In fact, a lady who turned out to be my mother-in-law, saw in a newspaper, a tiny little thing […]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…]h this thought, I think a lot of Scots people, I've noticed it since, Bill Bryden who runs one of the directors at the National theatre, he's head of BBC Scotland now and he's a playwright and he's just obsessed with films. He was telling me coming from Paisley, his friends who had similar interests[…]

Simon Rose

[…] it's like this, this angel is going up to heaven. And it's very Ken Russell ish. And I think on the basis for that film, he got his first job at the BBC. And another film that was extremely impressive was by Peter Wilkins, it was called forgotten faces. And it was about the uprising against the aga[…]
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