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[…]ew. So we were thrown out and I went back to sea in the Merchant Navy until 1925, after which time I was rather tired of the sea, so I applied to the BBC. They took me on as an engineer, and I was with them for three years. Then I got involved in a squabble, nothing to do with me at all, but I put m[…]

[…]itish. I certainly could remember what was called the Polish Corridor at Gaumont British, and later of course I worked there a lot because it was the BBC television as you know after Ally Pally, Alexandra Palace that is. And now we're into Ealing I don't think I went all that often. No, I don't thin[…]

[…] seven or eight sets which you redressed and redressed. PM: Until they wore out. That’s right. That was all at National Studios.DB: Which is now BBC.PM: Yeah. And we had one big stage as you say with the sets around, and then one end of it was green, with mountains.DB: For exteriors.PM: William[…]

[…]ue to the fact that that writers have territories. And television does tend to be not dominated by the Metropolitan voice inevitably, that's what the BBC was. That's where a lot of writers are. So you suddenly have Alan Plater writing out of how you have Tom Haddaway. Riding out of Newcastle. You se[…]