Peter Williams

[…]were concerned.  They were based in Southampton and their Programme Director was a chap called Berkeley Smith, and Berkeley Smith was an ex-BBC man and he knew how to do television properly. And I went to Southampton, I drove to Southampton and I discovered – well I had been told – that th[…]

Moira Armstrong

[…]ays did Shakespeare in the garden every summer because we had an English teacher who herself was an actress and, and did a lot of broadcasting on The BBC in, in Aberdeen. So I played Portia in The Merchant Of Venice when before I left school.And did that continue at university? Yes, it did, yes.Moir[…]

Johnny Speight

[…]ded people at Unity and I suppose I've continued to offend people, I can't blame Unity only for that, I've offended people all over the place, at the BBC and everywhere. Norman Swallow: Johnny, does that mean you wrote a play and submitted it to Unity Johnny Speight: Yes, I wrote plays, yes, and one[…]

Taylor Downing

[…]t at all but I was very much in the shadow of it, in the ‘wake’ if you like of The World at War, and always had been fascinated by it. And unlike the BBC for instance, when they were making The Great War series in the mid-sixties, where they only bought a brief licence for the archive all of which e[…]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…]and back to front. They were a very short of cameramen in those days.RF: They were the old Emitron cameras.BH: That's right, but I did every job. The BBC were very good to me because I was a vision mixer and I said after two years well I have learnt that, what can I do now? Then I was put onto sound[…]

David Robson

[…] stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, […]
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