[…]bsp;the copyright of this recording is vested in the British entertainment history project. The interviewee is Robin watched the former Controller of BBC Northern Ireland. The interviewer is Peter vile, and the date is the 13th of March 2023.Unknown Speaker  0:25  And before we start the i[…]
[…]ied on, perhaps in a slightly lower sense. But then when I got into my looking for a job or getting through school and going to work, and joining the BBC, the fact that I actually had a portfolio of stuff that I had already done, although I originally worked for news, so it wasn't so relevant. Inter[…]
[…] it's like this, this angel is going up to heaven. And it's very Ken Russell ish. And I think on the basis for that film, he got his first job at the BBC. And another film that was extremely impressive was by Peter Wilkins, it was called forgotten faces. And it was about the uprising against the aga[…]
Alan Lawson  0:05  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Michael Colomb, BBC TV sound engineer, dubbing mixer and director of better sound of Endell Street interview. Alan Lawson, recorded on the 12th of June 1995. side one you know, first and foremost, wh[…]
[…]time, and then I saw this advertisement in The Times for an assistant secretary to the Director-General ofNancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 8the BBC. And I said to Kenneth Clark, ‘I’m going to apply for this’. And he said, ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake, you can’t do that. I mean Sir William Haley isn’[…]
[…]r radar side, he was an absolute BrainBox. Very, very clever. And we both got demobbed more or less at the same time, I managed to get a job with the BBC. And Gordon went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both we[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] 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[…]
