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[…] 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 […]

[…] early 1950s he moved into television production for both the BBC and ATV, specialising particularly in musical variety shows. Notable […]

[…]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 […]

[…], 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,[…]

[…] about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there […]

[…], 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[…]

[…]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[…]

[…]g with him once much later on in television, when Bill Lyon-Shaw and I were working - Bill Lyon-Shaw was the producer, I was the floor manager at the BBC, and we used to a show called Life Begins at Sixty, and everybody in the cast was over sixty, and everybody in the audience was over sixty! [laugh[…]

[…] eve n ended up on, not Newsnight, the tea time BBC show with Sue Lawley, (actually it was Nationwide. PW) […]