Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

[…] but there had been a big gap in between, I don’t know, anyway I didn’t.AL: Your children, have they gone into films?DA: No, but Caroline is with the BBC in radio, Caroline is the editor of a programme called Analysis which comes on Thursday night and Friday morning on Radio 4 and it's rather an upd[…]

Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]letely took hold of me and in my head deciding, atthe age of 15 deciding what to do when I left school there were threechoices, films, theatre or the BBC. Not acting, appearing but on theproduction side. Films where always favourite. theatre was a lot of nightwork which I didn't fancy and the BBC wa[…]

Interview

[…]ce and Academy awards. This, this is a good film, with Laurie Lee writing the commentary and er - Edward Williams who did the music. At long last the BBC discovered him. He did the music for LIFE ON EARTH. This was one of the first scores he did in this area. JOURNEY INTO SPRING. Er - well, they are[…]

Dudley Lovell

[…]ying. This is one way of working. And when I was working with them, for instance, I remember shotwell Vera miles was coming down the road just by the BBC up in Portland place out and she turns into a doorway and goes into the door. And I said to Milton cries, and I said, what I do I she comes down t[…]

Charles Cooper

[…]lm we're looking over our shoulder and often we're having the opportunity to speak to the people at the particular festival, the representatives from BBC, Channel Four and so forth, as to what their degree of interest is in the film, you see, which has also a degree of conditioning about. If we want[…]

David Prosser

[…]vid ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, later BBC film cameraman. Recorded on the 23rd of the fifth, 1989 at his home in Chandler's Ford, Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side one.[break in recording]Alan[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]in nothing to do with the RAF but we just happened to be there.We were constantly looking for stories. We were 1ike correspondents in uniform and the BBC had a habit, we used to get news from them before anyone else and it was wildly inaccurate sometimes. They announced the fall of Holland. They sai[…]

David Robson

[…] Cans[?] comics, a sort of a technical paper, a technical book for people building amateur radios and stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave.Alan Lawson: Yes.David Robson: And I built the Nipkow disk and the picture elem[…]

Ronnie Noble

[…] retarded of buildings. And of course later on I went to work because. The BBC. I think and probably asked you this just in case I haven't. But when d[…]

Joe McGrath

[…]ks (laughs) Verity Lambert was my PA and - er - you can imagine Verity running - she ran - she ran the show.Q:  That was - er - ABC’s version of BBC’s ‘Monitor’  wasn’t it?00:11:34     JOE: Well - that’s a good  - it’s a good question it was the ABC’s version of ‘Monito[…]
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