[…]sp;I: The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Sir Paul Fox. One time Managing Director, BBC Television, Yorkshire Television. Interviewing Norman Swallow. Recorded on the 24th of March 1993. Side 1.First and foremost, wh[…]
[…]pyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committ[…]
[…]ry. That’s where I started school, in Coventry, St Joseph’s, Coventry, in the infants there. And it was good for my father because through Birmingham BBC they started doing broadcasts from the theatre of the Coventry Hippodrome orchestra, MD’d by my father and he became quite well known. In fac[…]
[…]s postgraduate academic work, got scholarship at Oxford but supervisor left for another job. Looked at alternative careers: Guardian, Unilever, Ford, BBC all said Yes. 8.15 - […]
[…] to go out – only one TV service - on BBC TV on New Year’s Day 1959. Once again playing […]
[…]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[…]
[…]ike that. And then I saw that I had in my mind that I'd like to be a cameraman. And so I wrote it while I was at school in sixth form, I wrote to the BBC and said, Are there any vacancies as an assistant cameraman? And they said, Are you too young, you got to be 2021 because you'll be living out of […]
[…], 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[…]
[…] eve n ended up on, not Newsnight, the tea time BBC show with Sue Lawley, (actually it was Nationwide. PW) […]
