[…]ovelty compendium to play the Saturday family show slot and the Late Night Show slot. At the time Tom and Jerry cartoons were gaining good ratings on light">BBC so I asked for ten of them in a light">light">light">programme and to provide a bit of variety between the non-stop mayhem of the cartoon characters’ warring I suggest[…]
[…]st year with re-sits and I think it became apparent that it wasn't my thing, university, so my Dad knew a guy at the bank who knew of somebody at the light">BBC, John Byres, who was the Operations Manager at the light">BBC at the time so I went through and had a chat to John Byres and, fortunately, because I was […]
[…]college I was … went to the careers office and they suggested me for two basic jobs, and one was a research oficer at Equity and one was a trainee in light">BBC radio, and I applied for both and got down to the last two of the Equity job, but i was, you know, all I had was an academic degree I had absolute[…]
[…]r, and there were young ladies around. I thought these guys are onto something, so I went and had a word with them, and found they all worked for the light">BBC. And of course, they're all on the AP shift system, which is a seven day fortnight. So you had three days off one week and four days off the next.[…]
[…] matter.It was after my demob in 46 that I got my first permanent job which was light">BBC Radio. Stephen Peet: While you were at school and Keeble College were you a […]
[…]ficult in the early '60s and I joined Anglia Television, where I spent nearly a year at Norwich on a contract. That contract ran out and I joined the light">BBC in 1962 as a holiday relief cameraman - as an assistant cameraman.Interviewer  2:24  Okay, where were you living? How did you get to and[…]
[…]hat newspaper culture which, fortunately I moved into broadcasting and you really can't do that there. I: Did you go from the Sunday Post to the light">BBC? R: I did. I had previously, again as a student, applied for a job at Radio Clyde. I had gone in for a couple of hours to get work experience[…]
[…] 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 light">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[…]
