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[…] Cans[?] comics, a sort of a technical paper, a technical book for people building amateur radios and stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave.Alan Lawson: Yes.David Robson: And I built the Nipkow disk and the picture elem[…]
[…]folio, which I did and he got in touch with Roy Oxley2 who had been a fellow art director, now at this time, which by now was 1951 he was at the BBC. Now the head of design there at that time was Peter Bax3 and they, now what happened, oh I think it was the usual thing, they said apply, an[…]
[…] and actually ended up giving me my career.Unknown Speaker 5:53 When I finished the three yearsUnknown Speaker 5:58 that BBC had lost a lot of staff to ITV, of course, because there was nowhere else to recruit them from. So I joined the BBC.Unknown Speaker 6:09 &nb[…]
[…]chnical infrastructure of three telephone exchanges for a phone for each students' residence, they had a broadcast radio studio which was designed to BBC standards with PPMs with Janet Fields with all the bits you would expect to find in an actual broadcast studio. They had a theatre with proper lig[…]
[…]come and work for STV in the run up to the next election." Didn't hear anything from David Scott for several months but in the meantime people at the BBC had said, "We would like you to come and work for us!" And so, eventually what happened is I went to work in a freelance capacity with BBC Radio S[…]
[…]f art school at Farnham, and I should say that painting is also a thing in my family. I wasn't painting but I was being painted. And I applied to the BBC and it shot through very quickly. It was how lucky I suddenly got this invitation from one called Gertrude Leonard and met John O Bride? not at th[…]
[…]of status and provided some very intelligent and worthwhile contributors. I think, I think breaking up the old TV branch was good because it gave the BBC a sensible voice. Its weakness, there was two fold in respect of television. One, ITV became quite a the worst aspects of ITV that in the past hav[…]