[…]ould only have the news if we can do something different with it. So we thought there are already two very good half hour news programmes on the BBC and on ITV, what can we do that’s different. And we decidedthat what British television needed was a longer, more analytical news which got a grip[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, […]
[…] 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[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] and there was one program we wanted to do on BBC announcers. We had Mac Hobley . Sylvia Peters I […]
[…]hought it was a contribution to the Commonwealth Games, which was opened by David Steele MP at the time. Steve Morrison did a whole thing on this, on BBC Television and BBC Radio and got sacked by the BBC for doing it because he hadn't told them what it was about. They didn't realise it was a protes[…]
[…] program. But it was his program and I was caught in between. I never bet bit. It was kind of a mediator and there was one program we wanted to do on BBC announcers. We had Mac Hobley . Sylvia Peters I think it was very good. And we did a whole program based on BBC announcements and we we had a lot […]
