Kenneth Griffith

[…]people, it seems to be a characteristic. I mean, Dylan Thomas had it, didn't he?  He had what we call standard English. Better than ... not BBC Standard English, something much bigger than that. But as you say, no accent. Kenneth Griffith  31:19  Yes, Dylan Thomas […]

Peter T Handford

[…]uld work in the studio during the day and then maybe go out and do locations at night and there was an actor called Bruce Belfridge who had come from BBC who was doing his dialogue with a very strong Welsh accent. I said doesn’t anybody mind about this and he said, ‘No they don’t seem to. I thought […]

Lionel Banes

[…]at one could do that otherwise you could never have worked those hours,Speaker 1  27:56  did you because then Ealing folded and sold to the BBC, and then I believe you went on to Pinewood on TV series.Speaker 2  28:14  Well, when Ealing were first packing up, I've been tipped off[…]

Sidney Cole

[…]ome in on it. Dut in those days the ABS was hardly what you would call a trade union. In the BEC vie never got anywhere. We had members there but the BBC would never really acknowledge this gave us. any rights and I remember a famous meeting. There was a letter from the director general or the assis[…]

Mary Hillman

[…]bsp;   Went to Gertrude Hartley school00:05:28            Started work as trainee at BBC00:07:20            Talks about apprenticeships00:09:25      &[…]
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