Jimmy Wright

[…]ppose about 1963 as far as color started I forget exactly what it was that BBC toured going on but later than that I think that a little later that ye[…]

Len Runkel

[…]cameras, I don't know, but we were still modifying them. On occasion, I.Unknown Speaker  40:03  Yeah, and we also, we also did work for the BBC newsreel, didn't we?Unknown Speaker  40:09  You did maintenance, yes, because can I remember you had a Mitchell camera with a sound head[…]

Charles Picken

[…]ovelty compendium to play the Saturday family show slot and the Late Night Show slot. At the time Tom and Jerry cartoons were gaining good ratings on BBC so I asked for ten of them in a programme and to provide a bit of variety between the non-stop mayhem of the cartoon characters’ warring I suggest[…]

Robert Love

[…]p. company in Chesterfield in Derbyshire. Did a rep. season there, moved to Sheffield which was a slightly bigger theatre and then I got a job at the BBC in Glasgow! STV, of course, had a very successful nightly magazine programme called Here and Now, presented by Bill Tennent, terribly popular. The[…]

Roy Fowler

[…] of going there was of course it enabled me to get my ticket ACT didn't have jurisdiction but they were happy enough to recruit membership from, from BBC Television.  So I promptly applied for my ticket and got it, in round figures I was at 13000 my membership number. In terms of being a c[…]

Vivienne Collins

[…]riting for... Do you remember, did you know Julian Bond?I know the name.Yes. He started doing a lot of, well he later on did a lot of writing for the BBC and he did, he did a lot of adaptations, quite well known big series on television he did, but he was really just starting out at that time and st[…]
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