[…]ry Jack Hawkins and detective story. And after that, it was announced at the end of that was announced that the studio was closing, being sold to the BBC. And we were tipped off. So you boys are okay, you will come with us to MGM. And that's great, got no problem. And I was the only person left in t[…]
[…]Gaumont British News doing, again, run of the mill newsstories all over the place in England, Scotland and everywhere. And then a job came up with theBBC, I saw it advertised in the Times, so I thought I would have a go at that. So I got it. I got thisjob with Camera and BBC Television News based at[…]
[…]oor of this pub I could hear myself playing the piano. I thought, I'm going crackers! But I wasn't, it was the same soundtrack being broadcast by the BBC.Roy Fowler: Extraordinary. And you recognised your touch?Eddie Dryhurst: Well I naturally recognised the tune right away and, I reckoned how funny[…]
[…]sp;you turning over you were saying about brown Mickey? Oh,Speaker 1 0:14 yes. Well, he, although he will, of course, I knew him from the BBC. Knew of him with BBC. I'd never met him, but he was a great friend of Margaret Harper Nelson's. So she rang me and said, do look after Brian. And[…]
[…]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 BBC so I asked for ten of them in a programme and to provide a bit of variety between the non-stop mayhem of the cartoon characters’ warring I suggest[…]
[…]p. company in Chesterfield in Derbyshire. Did a rep. season there, moved to Sheffield which was a slightly bigger theatre and then I got a job at the BBC in Glasgow! STV, of course, had a very successful nightly magazine programme called Here and Now, presented by Bill Tennent, terribly popular. The[…]
