[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ik mean? Why should we East east, okay.Speaker 1  4:36  That lends itself to something that probably happens later on in your career at the BBC and the names of the programmes you worked on, I think. Tell me about going into university. What did you study? Yes.Speaker 2  4:52  I […]
[…]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 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.[…]
