[…]t at all but I was very much in the shadow of it, in the ‘wake’ if you like of The World at War, and always had been fascinated by it. And unlike the BBC for instance, when they were making The Great War series in the mid-sixties, where they only bought a brief licence for the archive all of which e[…]
[…]f art school at Farnham, and I should say that painting is also a thing in my family. I wasn't painting but I was being painted. And I applied to the BBC and it shot through very quickly. It was how lucky I suddenly got this invitation from one called Gertrude Leonard and met John O Bride? not at th[…]
[…]e?Yes, that’s right, mm.And it had a marble bathroom.[Laughter]Mind you we were in bunk beds, which was a bit of a letdown because my letter from the BBC said it would be dormitory type accommodation sharing, they didn’t say you would be in a bunk bed, you know.[05:06][Laughter]But anyway I’d been i[…]
[…]college I was … went to the careers office and they suggested me for two basic jobs, and one was a research oficer at Equity and one was a trainee in BBC radio, and I applied for both and got down to the last two of the Equity job, but i was, you know, all I had was an academic degree I had absolute[…]
[…]made etc. And Basil picked up the Timesone morning and found out that they had double crossed him and it was not to be a filmsdepartment, such as the BBC might be which was independent of everything but it was to be underthe Central Office of Information and that was the fatal mistake. I got the cat[…]
[…] inaccurate quite frequently. That's notSpeaker 1 37:22 the first time, no, no, no, the credit was Gordon parry, actually, I did ring the BBC on that, and they put out an apology, and so on. Power now, right? So then, now we're still up in Manchester, aren'tUnknown Speaker 37:49 &n[…]
[…] a bit of a letdown because my letter from the BBC said it would be dormitory type accommodation sharing, they […]
[…] was not to be a films department, such as the BBC might be which was independent of everything but it […]
[…] retarded of buildings. And of course later on I went to work because. The BBC. I think and probably asked you this just in case I haven't. But when d[…]
[…] lieu of the money that they owed me. But the whole point was that during - when I first got this assignment from Spot News, they asked me to contact BBC news to work out and to get a liaison agreement between Spot and the BBC. This was in '52. And the BBC then, their newsreel was a magazine program[…]
