Peter Ansorge

[…]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[…]

Michael Bond

[…]advertisement in the local paper saying want is somebody interested in wireless so I wrote so off. And to my amazement I got her letter back with the BBC heading and it was the BBC at that time were erecting low power transmitters all over the country which in the event of any craft coming over labo[…]

Russell Galbraith

[…] to a terrific start! That, it must be said, was due in large part to the fact that the audience, the local audience felt no affinity whatsoever with BBC. BBC Scotland. They didn't seem to think they catered for them in any way and then along comes this new kid on the block trying everything, giving[…]

Una Bart (Jennings)

[…]pe. So more towards the end of the 50’s and of course by the end of the 50’s Michael Balcon had left the studio’s and the studio had gone over to the BBC, apropos, which all those scores that Una talked about apart from the Vaughan William scores for Scott, which were in the archive in the music dep[…]
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