[…] other people who was down and out and getting a bit of money doing radio work was... Ian...Ian ...oh lord... Ian Mc-something, who became one of the light">BBC's chief overseas people... the name's gone. [**NB: Might be Ian McDougall**] And anyway... Easter 1948... Eventually I came back to England, wande[…]
[…]ds “She come down.” And he was absolutely in love with this. I spoke to Ronnie about him and I said “Why doesn’t Rank come to an arrangement with the light">BBC, give him decent equipment, because he was using these awful old disc things that rumbled and thumped, and must have weighed a ton; give him a dec[…]
[…]t I thought I probably thought I got six months work. It was it was two weeks only was shot at Highbury studios. Recently I got a copy of it from the light">BBC. It's on video. It is the most dreadful little film. I mean, it's really poor, but Bernard Miles was in it. And an actress called lusail Lyle spel[…]
[…]t I thought I probably thought I got six months work. It was it was two weeks only was shot at Highbury studios. Recently I got a copy of it from the light">BBC. It's on video. It is the most dreadful little film. I mean, it's really poor, but Bernard Miles was in it. And an actress called lusail Lyle spel[…]
[…]nown Speaker 15:37 the frost are now prior to this. I wrote for the Scottish comedian, Jimmy Logan, who'd come south to do as soon as the light">BBC. And always remember Jimmy saying to me, if I wear a kilt, the audience will think is trying too hard. And if I don't wear a kilt, the balls back […]
[…]azin: So they didn't use it in any - no TV company took over?Manny Yospa: Well I don't think - there weren't any TV companies in those days, just the light">BBC! Er, no filming was done there, I think a carpet company has taken over lately. It's still there, the building. But er - then I did a lot of casua[…]
[…]lark? No.
Jim Clark?
No not Jim, he wasn’t around then.
No. I was thinking... Well, there was Robert Clark[ph] who was editor[??] at[??] the light">BBC[??-8:42].
No, it wasn’t... No. His name’s... I can see his face but I can’t remember his name.
Not to worry, because it will be a matter of […]
[…]herly man.WT: Do you know who I first worked with for television, Mr Baird.LW: How did that happen.WT: When he was experimenting in a room behind the light">BBC, he was always asking for people to come and jig up and down in front of the cameras really and truly. I was a child but he got remarkable people,[…]
