[…]tish Entertainment History Project Interview No. 710 Interviewee: Anne Hanford, formerly Head of Television Library Services at the light">light">light">BBCInterviewer: Sue MaldenTranscriber: Linda Hall-Shaw SUE MALDEN: Thank you very much for talking to us Anne.ANNE HANFORD: It’[…]
[…] 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">light">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[…]
[…]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">light">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[…]
[…] What happened when you left National Service after two years? NEVILLE WORTMAN: I came out of National Service and at that time the light">light">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[…]
[…]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">light">light">BBC so I asked for ten of them in a light">programme and to provide a bit of variety between the non-stop mayhem of the cartoon characters’ warring I suggest[…]
[…] early 1950s he moved into television production for both the light">light">BBC and ATV, specialising particularly in musical variety shows. Notable […]
[…]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">light">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[…]
[…]made etc. And Basil picked up the Timesone morning and found out that they had double crossed him and it was not to be a filmsdepartment, such as the light">light">light">BBC might be which was independent of everything but it was to be underthe Central Office of Information and that was the fatal mistake. I got the cat[…]
[…] was not to be a films department, such as the light">light">BBC might be which was independent of everything but it […]
[…]ike that. And then I saw that I had in my mind that I'd like to be a cameraman. And so I wrote it while I was at school in sixth form, I wrote to the light">light">light">BBC and said, Are there any vacancies as an assistant cameraman? And they said, Are you too young, you got to be 2021 because you'll be living out of […]
