Harry Coventry

[…], my father had a job. He worked in London with a Cable and Wireless company making telephone cable, basically. But I we had no, no hook up with with light">BBC, we listen to it. Listen to it on radio every, every day, basically. And when I was three and a half, the war started and and that part of London,[…]

Mat Irvine

[…]ied on, perhaps in a slight">lightly lower sense. But then when I got into my looking for a job or getting through school and going to work, and joining the light">BBC, the fact that I actually had a portfolio of stuff that I had already done, although I originally worked for news, so it wasn't so relevant. Inter[…]

Margaret Dale

[…] January 1992. DISC 1 Side One Track 1NS: First of all Maggie, when and where were you born?MD: Newcastle on Tyne 1922. I am the same age as the light">BBC (both laugh).NS: What kind of schooling did you do?MD: I went to school very early, I think you would call it elementary school in those days.It w[…]

Pete Murray

[…]  Another one.  I’ve actually got a picture of myself somewhere in there [Laughter]MIKE DICK:  It says you’re an extra in the crowd in light">BBC Bunker, is that…PETE MURRAY:  light">BBC?MIKE DICK:  light">BBC Bunker.  That’s, That’s how its termed… PETE MURRAY:  I’ve never heard […]

Robin Walsh

[…]bsp;the copyright of this recording is vested in the British entertainment history project. The interviewee is Robin watched the former Controller of light">BBC Northern Ireland. The interviewer is Peter vile, and the date is the 13th of March 2023.Unknown Speaker  0:25  And before we start the i[…]

Martin Gibbons

[…]y was formed, how it was formed, etc.Speaker 2  0:52  Yes, I can say that the Society was formed in 1976. Tony, sadly died in 1968, and the light">BBC have repeated some radio and television shows to the time of his death. And then there's been nothing at all. And there were a lot of fans of Tony[…]

Dicky Leeman

[…]g with him once much later on in television, when Bill Lyon-Shaw and I were working - Bill Lyon-Shaw was the producer, I was the floor manager at the light">BBC, and we used to a show called Life Begins at Sixty, and everybody in the cast was over sixty, and everybody in the audience was over sixty! [laugh[…]

Neville Wortman

[…]  What happened when you left National Service after two years? NEVILLE WORTMAN:   I came out of National Service and at that time the light">BBC … it was all in black and white of course … the editor of a local newspaper had got a contract to do short stories on television and so I illustra[…]

David Attenborough

[…]ing up ideas for books only it's probably quicker. I don't see why shouldn't be I able to do that, I mean it might be quite interesting. Actually the light">BBC represented a kind ofNorman Swallow: publisherDavid Attenborough: Well, more than that, it represented a kind of university really, it represented[…]
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