[…] January 1992. DISC 1 Side One Track 1NS: First of all Maggie, when and where were you born?MD: Newcastle on Tyne 1922. I am the same age as the BBC (both laugh).NS: What kind of schooling did you do?MD: I went to school very early, I think you would call it elementary school in those days.It w[…]
[…]made etc. And Basil picked up the Timesone morning and found out that they had double crossed him and it was not to be a filmsdepartment, such as the BBC might be which was independent of everything but it was to be underthe Central Office of Information and that was the fatal mistake. I got the cat[…]
[…] was not to be a films department, such as the BBC might be which was independent of everything but it […]
[…]e school closed, I was casting about for what to do next. And that was when I began in the theatre. And very soon afterwards started my career in the BBC. Joyce Robinson 2:39 Well, well, so this is this when you're 22. And you Lois Singer 2:42 &n[…]
[…] to go out – only one TV service - on BBC TV on New Year’s Day 1959. Once again playing […]
[…] actress and, and did a lot of broadcasting on The BBC in, in Aberdeen. So I played Portia in The […]
[…]ays did Shakespeare in the garden every summer because we had an English teacher who herself was an actress and, and did a lot of broadcasting on The BBC in, in Aberdeen. So I played Portia in The Merchant Of Venice when before I left school.And did that continue at university? Yes, it did, yes.Moir[…]
[…] early 1950s he moved into television production for both the BBC and ATV, specialising particularly in musical variety shows. Notable […]
[…]g with him once much later on in television, when Bill Lyon-Shaw and I were working - Bill Lyon-Shaw was the producer, I was the floor manager at the BBC, and we used to a show called Life Begins at Sixty, and everybody in the cast was over sixty, and everybody in the audience was over sixty! [laugh[…]
