Jenny Barraclough

[…]actor sometimes to read the minimalcommentary. Yeah.Can we stop for a second year just because I feel yes. It's….SRAt the end of the 80s you left the BBC, having been there a long time, and set up your ownproduction company. Can you tell me why you did that?JBWell. I remember it was very much agains[…]

Norman Swallow

[…] matter.It was after my demob in 46 that I got my first permanent job which was BBC Radio. Stephen Peet: While you were at school and Keeble College were you a […]

Robert Scott

[…]st year with re-sits and I think it became apparent that it wasn't my thing, university, so my Dad knew a guy at the bank who knew of somebody at the BBC, John Byres, who was the Operations Manager at the BBC at the time so I went through and had a chat to John Byres and, fortunately, because I was […]

Harry Coventry

[…], my father had a job. He worked in London with a Cable and Wireless company making telephone cable, basically. But I we had no, no hook up with with BBC, we listen to it. Listen to it on radio every, every day, basically. And when I was three and a half, the war started and and that part of London,[…]

Betty Willingale

[…]s in Peek Frean’s factory. Mm, really would have loved to work in the theatre but knew nothing about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there would be programmes going on and also a weekly pay cheque or, you know, pay packet in this. So I[…]

Michael Houldey

[…]ed drama, Documentary, Music, Arts, medical, and waternsw. So I've had quite a broad spectrum when when, and I've also worked for major companies for BBC for all the most of the ITV companies before that when they were still in existence, channel for independence. And that's, that's, that's who I am[…]

Phil Windeatt

[…], so everyone’s happy, you know, and we got a page in. So absolutely amazing amount of publicity and we even ended up on, not Newsnight, the tea time BBC show with Sue Lawley, (actually it was Nationwide. PW) and er, so the film was 11 getting around. This is incredible really from nothing[…]
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