[…]an, what you see, when did that come to have it in the mid 50s? I guess it was Yeah.Speaker 1 1:37:46 I just found a little press cutting BBC Two coming toMike Dick 1:37:53 ABC I would have been I remember, one family in our street had the one television and I think that was […]
[…]l Street eventually closed down. Nothing to do with the fact that I came and joined them. The main shop was in Queen Margaret Drive, not far from the BBC, and eventually I was decanted up to Queen Margaret Drive and I stayed there for six years but the one thing about that job, even though I was sur[…]
[…]quets wound with tapeI: Now we’re into an area, oh I tell you what we ought to mention ITV had started commercial television. Also you had worked for BBC of course since after the warJK: Yes I did pantomime with themI: And various variety pieces, I imagine that stood you in good stead for this new-f[…]
[…] so a few of those producers were sitting around propping up a bar of the George or in a club - what is now the Langham Hilton with a slightly grubby BBC club - and they have a great feeling of pride. Both in radio and as against the Johnny come lately upstart commoners Mark television and I le[…]
[…]achi on the way down, pick up the film, and go down then." Up to that point, until I ran out of film, I used to go to Gandhi's prayer meetings with a BBC man and an AP photographer. We used to, the three of us, go there every evening. Because there were sort of feelings that something was going to h[…]
[…]itish. I certainly could remember what was called the Polish Corridor at Gaumont British, and later of course I worked there a lot because it was the BBC television as you know after Ally Pally, Alexandra Palace that is. And now we're into Ealing I don't think I went all that often. No, I don't thin[…]
[…]e over and saw these plays, and we had one Irish actress with us at the festival, who’d come from the Gate Theatre, where Lord Longford, had been the producer, the money for Hilton Edwards , and well I’d heard a lot about the Dublin Gate Theatre, and again I thought, “ooh, wouldn’t it be wonde[…]
