[…] actress and, and did a lot of broadcasting on The BBC in, in Aberdeen. So I played Portia in The […]
Tim Emblem-English (TE) Archive Telecine Specialist, Former BBC Broadcast Engineer Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Carolyn Rickards (CR) Date 21/05/2018 Length 01:48:52 CR: So we’re here with an interview today with Tim Emblem-English. Thank you very much for agreeing to[…]
[…]ays did Shakespeare in the garden every summer because we had an English teacher who herself was an actress and, and did a lot of broadcasting on The BBC in, in Aberdeen. So I played Portia in The Merchant Of Venice when before I left school.And did that continue at university? Yes, it did, yes.Moir[…]
[…]n, you know, the kind of influences from, you know, from yeah film and yeahSpeaker 1 14:05 television. Well, interestingly, I we only had BBC One we didn't have and we then got BBC Two when it started. And so the only thing we could watch was BBC. And I got really into at a young age, th[…]
[…]sspenny (?) Road Hendon and then I had a whole room - for the - to keep the equipment in. And that was when I would have first been in touch with the BBC would have been would, have been from the spare bedroom at 4 Cresspenny Road (?) That’s where you would have phoned me or I would have phoned you.[…]
[…] early 1950s he moved into television production for both the BBC and ATV, specialising particularly in musical variety shows. Notable […]
[…] it's like this, this angel is going up to heaven. And it's very Ken Russell ish. And I think on the basis for that film, he got his first job at the BBC. And another film that was extremely impressive was by Peter Wilkins, it was called forgotten faces. And it was about the uprising against the aga[…]
[…]s in the school who obviously, I had never been his treasure, and he said, I don't know what will happen to you after the army said, finish up in the BBC. I should think. And there you are. You see, they did actually know their boys. And as it happened, I didn't finish up in the BBC, but I might I h[…]
[…], my father had a job. He worked in London with a Cable and Wireless company making telephone cable, basically. But I we had no, no hook up with with BBC, we listen to it. Listen to it on radio every, every day, basically. And when I was three and a half, the war started and and that part of London,[…]
[…]e school closed, I was casting about for what to do next. And that was when I began in the theatre. And very soon afterwards started my career in the BBC. Joyce Robinson 2:39 Well, well, so this is this when you're 22. And you Lois Singer 2:42 &n[…]