[…] What happened when you left National Service after two years? NEVILLE WORTMAN:  I came out of National Service and at that time the BBC … it was all in black and white of course … the editor of a local newspaper had got a contract to do short stories on television and so I illustra[…]
[…] January 1992. DISC 1 Side One Track 1NS: First of all Maggie, when and where were you born?MD: Newcastle on Tyne 1922. I am the same age as the BBC (both laugh).NS: What kind of schooling did you do?MD: I went to school very early, I think you would call it elementary school in those days.It w[…]
[…]time, and then I saw this advertisement in The Times for an assistant secretary to the Director-General ofNancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 8the BBC. And I said to Kenneth Clark, ‘I’m going to apply for this’. And he said, ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake, you can’t do that. I mean Sir William Haley isn’[…]
[…]ck dissolve now’. Quick dissolve six feet and Gerald Cock, who became the first director of television when the service was put into the hands of the BBC by the government at that time, came to Cricklewood to do some recording for some OBs that he was going to make. In those days you see the corpora[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]ded people at Unity and I suppose I've continued to offend people, I can't blame Unity only for that, I've offended people all over the place, at the BBC and everywhere. Norman Swallow: Johnny, does that mean you wrote a play and submitted it to Unity Johnny Speight: Yes, I wrote plays, yes, and one[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]rman Swallow  0:04  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Richard Levin, head of television design for the BBC interview on normal swallow, recorded on the third of September 1991. side one okay. First of all, when and where were you born?Richard Levin &nbs[…]
[…]ee again?" I said, "Well, no. You hire me out," I said, "I want money coming in each month, you see" - which they did and er...then, all of a sudden, BBC rang me up...er...a gentleman er who I'd never heard of, a Mr Dale Struther[?] and said could I possibly help them out to come up on a Saturday an[…]
[…] 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[…]
