Interview

[…]n to leave the company. After about five months, I started shopping around and this was in the summer of 1962, I saw an advert in the newspaper for a light">BBC film department at Ealing was taking on temporary staff for the editing department. So I ran the number to find out what it was all about. And a f[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…] recherche as all her suggested recipes are far too expensive. She was married and is in fact still married to number three he was at one time in the light">BBC called John Shearer. He was known as 'Vulcan the Exterminator' because he was responsible for cleaning everybody out making them redundant. And Ji[…]

Christine Collins

[…]Page 5Tape 17Michaela Denis and their film series was called On Safari and I think about two years previously to that they had won the light">BBC award for the best factual light">light">light">programme, probably in 1956 or 4 or something like that. Although television in those days was only black and white and[…]

Gerry Weinbren

[…]e never known anybody shoot with such low ratios. I mean when we went out shooting Peter shot the shot and that was it there was no messing about. No light">BBC 40 takes. It was just what he knew exactly what he wanted it was all absolutely planned that went in his head not on paper. And eventually they th[…]

Gordon Courcha

[…] and actually ended up giving me my career.Unknown Speaker  5:53  When I finished the three yearsUnknown Speaker  5:58  that light">BBC had lost a lot of staff to ITV, of course, because there was nowhere else to recruit them from. So I joined the light">BBC.Unknown Speaker  6:09 &nb[…]

Rudolph (Rudi) Cartier

[…]yone in television. I'll introduce you he said and. So the next day came an invitation to meet Michael Barry at the Royal Automobile Club, not at the light">BBC, and we started talking and I said and may I tell you what I think of light">BBC Television. He said yes, tell me. And I said I think nothing, it's just […]

Virginia McKenna

[…]The Edwardians (1972-4),[105] and the one I was in was called ‘Darling Daisy’. The costumes were, to be believed, they were so beautiful. As only the light">BBC can do, I think – certainly in those days – the quality of the production in every way. I mean, even your petticoat, which was never seen; everyth[…]

Michael Clarke

[…]Monte Slater and others were involved. Anyway, so Rosa said, don't give up your writing, whereas Edgar ansty later when I wrote wrote a broadcast for light">BBC, on what, on the Cotswolds, from the point of view was making a film about the Cotswolds was furious with me and said, You should have asked my pe[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]sspenny (?) Road Hendon and then I had a whole room - for the - to keep the equipment in. And that was when I would have first been in touch with the light">BBC would have been would, have been from the spare bedroom at 4 Cresspenny Road (?) That’s where you would have phoned me or I would have phoned you.[…]

Michael Bond

[…]advertisement in the local paper saying want is somebody interested in wireless so I wrote so off. And to my amazement I got her letter back with the light">BBC heading and it was the light">BBC at that time were erecting low power transmitters all over the country which in the event of any craft coming over labo[…]
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