[…]vid ProsserTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. David Prosser, Newsreel cameraman, later BBC film cameraman. Recorded on the 23rd of the fifth, 1989 at his home in Chandler's Ford, Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side one.[break in recording]Alan[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ik mean? Why should we East east, okay.Speaker 1 4:36 That lends itself to something that probably happens later on in your career at the BBC and the names of the programmes you worked on, I think. Tell me about going into university. What did you study? Yes.Speaker 2 4:52 I […]
[…]r, and there were young ladies around. I thought these guys are onto something, so I went and had a word with them, and found they all worked for the BBC. And of course, they're all on the AP shift system, which is a seven day fortnight. So you had three days off one week and four days off the next.[…]
[…]me kickstarted. And I wanted obviously in my final year I started applying for jobs and I applied for the Trainee Assistant Producer scheme in London BBC and also a Trainee Assistant Editor. I did an interview in Manchester for BBC Manchester as an Assistant Editor. And I think I went to Yorkshire T[…]
[…]and back to front. They were a very short of cameramen in those days.RF: They were the old Emitron cameras.BH: That's right, but I did every job. The BBC were very good to me because I was a vision mixer and I said after two years well I have learnt that, what can I do now? Then I was put onto sound[…]
[…]ks (laughs) Verity Lambert was my PA and - er - you can imagine Verity running - she ran - she ran the show.Q: That was - er - ABC’s version of BBC’s ‘Monitor’ wasn’t it?00:11:34 JOE: Well - that’s a good - it’s a good question it was the ABC’s version of ‘Monito[…]
