[…]didn't find out until the early 1960s? All this?Philip Donnellan: Well I had a standard southern English accent. Indeed that's why I joined the BBC I was brought into the BBC as an announcer because I had an impeccable standard southern English accent and that was the accent I remember in my f[…]
[…]pyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committ[…]
[…]ht, let's see if I can't get some more money, see if we can cover a bit more anyway. went looking for a job for more money and got interviewed by the BBC and was offered a job a secretarial job for less money. At which point my mum said, Look, Louise, you've always wanted to work in broadcasting, I'[…]
[…]r radar side, he was an absolute BrainBox. Very, very clever. And we both got demobbed more or less at the same time, I managed to get a job with the BBC. And Gordon went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both we[…]
[…] television that was being produced was important, particularly by the BBC, and we should take some television but on a […]
[…]But he had a similar ambivalence with television: he could see that some of the television that was being produced was important, particularly by the BBC, and we should take some television but on a highly selective basis. He was very, very, firm about that and he wasn’t terribly keen on taking the […]
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[…]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 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[…]
[…]ue to the fact that that writers have territories. And television does tend to be not dominated by the Metropolitan voice inevitably, that's what the BBC was. That's where a lot of writers are. So you suddenly have Alan Plater writing out of how you have Tom Haddaway. Riding out of Newcastle. You se[…]
