[…]sp;I: The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Sir Paul Fox. One time Managing Director, light">light">light">BBC Television, Yorkshire Television. Interviewing Norman Swallow. Recorded on the 24th of March 1993. Side 1.First and foremost, wh[…]
[…]didn't find out until the early 1960s? All this?Philip Donnellan: Well I had a standard southern English accent. Indeed that's why I joined the light">light">light">BBC I was brought into the light">light">light">BBC as an announcer because I had an impeccable standard southern English accent and that was the accent I remember in my f[…]
[…]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 light">light">light">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[…]
[…]en know what her name is. But one day she'll smile and then I'll feel better. And I'm very like that, but as I say I'm very basic, all my life at the light">light">light">BBC I never took it seriously. I mean to become managing director of light">light">light">BBC Television was beyond my wildest expectations. And when I got I used to stand[…]
[…]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-light">light">light">BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committ[…]
[…] engineer, then went into the RAF for two years’ national service, 1952 – 54, and when I came out I went back to the GPO until 1957 when I joined the light">light">light">BBC as a Technical Operator in October 1957. MDWhat were your earliest memories of growing up in South East London? BAPlaying out in the str[…]
[…]h this thought, I think a lot of Scots people, I've noticed it since, Bill Bryden who runs one of the directors at the National theatre, he's head of light">light">light">BBC Scotland now and he's a playwright and he's just obsessed with films. He was telling me coming from Paisley, his friends who had similar interests[…]
[…]? And I can't remember having much advice from them. But, and I don't know where I got the idea from but we must get on to it quickly, I wrote to the light">light">light">BBC and asked them if I could have a job in the light">light">light">BBC, because like all sixteen, seventeen year olds, you don't know what you want to do. And I thought […]
[…] must get on to it quickly, I wrote to the light">light">BBC and asked them if I could have a job […]
[…] took French and German and then lastly Spanish which has stood me in good stead because I ended up when I left school in the European service of the light">light">light">BBC for a year and a half before I was called up at 18 and a half. When the war finished, I was seconded by my regiment to become the Unterhaltungsche[…]
