[…]tish Entertainment History Project Interview No. 710 Interviewee: Anne Hanford, formerly Head of Television Library Services at the BBCInterviewer: Sue MaldenTranscriber: Linda Hall-Shaw SUE MALDEN: Thank you very much for talking to us Anne.ANNE HANFORD: It’[…]
[…]how she ended up in films. Her daughter was Juliet Rhys-Williams who was in fact a Liberal Member of Parliament and she was the governor of the BBC at the time, and I went to see her at the time and 8:01 she gave me one of those rather wonderful white five-pound notes [laughter] which have dis[…]
[…]for the best in the end, but it was from Brighton as he eventually got the job of Coventry Hippodrome from Coventry Hippodrome, it was the Birmingham BBC, who started him broadcasting.Unknown Speaker 17:50 We, it's interesting that I mean, in terms of broadcast and we go to a load come i[…]
[…]wing who’s now Lord Orr-Ewing who had been a Wing Commander in radar during the war, and some faceless wonder from the appointments department of the BBC, I can’t even remember who it was, I think it might have been Jack Nott but I can’t remember. Anyway, there were two vacancies and I think t[…]
[…]n, it's really a totally different world that it was then 1959 I hadn't even taken my finals. They came around the universities. They, the BBC came around the universities recruiting people, and I happened to be walking through one of the halls of the university. And there was […]
[…]y was formed, how it was formed, etc.Speaker 2 0:52 Yes, I can say that the Society was formed in 1976. Tony, sadly died in 1968, and the BBC have repeated some radio and television shows to the time of his death. And then there's been nothing at all. And there were a lot of fans of Tony[…]
[…]hought it was a contribution to the Commonwealth Games, which was opened by David Steele MP at the time. Steve Morrison did a whole thing on this, on BBC Television and BBC Radio and got sacked by the BBC for doing it because he hadn't told them what it was about. They didn't realise it was a protes[…]
[…] What happened when you left National Service after two years? NEVILLE WORTMAN: I came out of National Service and at that time the BBC … it was all in black and white of course … the editor of a local newspaper had got a contract to do short stories on television and so I illustra[…]
Tim Emblem-English (TE) Archive Telecine Specialist, Former BBC Broadcast Engineer Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Carolyn Rickards (CR) Date 21/05/2018 Length 01:48:52 CR: So we’re here with an interview today with Tim Emblem-English. Thank you very much for agreeing to[…]
[…]? And I can't remember having much advice from them. But, and I don't know where I got the idea from but we must get on to it quickly, I wrote to the BBC and asked them if I could have a job in the BBC, because like all sixteen, seventeen year olds, you don't know what you want to do. And I thought […]
