David Robson

[…] Cans[?] comics, a sort of a technical paper, a technical book for people building amateur radios and stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave.Alan Lawson: Yes.David Robson: And I built the Nipkow disk and the picture elem[…]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]and chippies and classrooms benefit as well. However, for me, it was absolutely marvellous because it was the greatest training ground apart from the BBC, I suppose the crown Film Unit, andUnknown Speaker  9:11  I'm working toRobert Angel  9:16  I was working with an editor calle[…]

Sheelagh Rees

[…]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[…]

John Frame

[…] out of the window! But we all coped and it was fine. But the best joy I had at STV was a Director called Dougie Moodie. Douglas Moodie. He came from BBC to STV and it was Ibsen's The Wild Duck, the play. I'd seen it at the Festival and Douglas's interpretation of it, television-wise, was unbelievab[…]

Bill Ward

[…]ard  1:28   I didn't know. I never had any idea. Hadn't the faintest idea? I got into into radio because I joined  BBC Plymouth, 5PY, which was a local radio station BBC, of course, had to be in those days, 1932 ,32 and my father knew the chief engineer of the Plym[…]

Diana Morgan

[…]h, [with Siler??] I played in a play at Wyndhams. And I got married. SC: When did you get married? DM: 1934. And that year Bobby joined the BBC. And Noel Marshall sent for us and said ‘I’m doing a revue, will you work on it?’ And we’d never done anything like that before. So we said ‘Certa[…]
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