Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…]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[…]

Joe McGrath

[…]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[…]

Ann Turner

[…]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[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]f the screen and you would come in the bottom. I suppose it was a form of wipe but a rather crude form of wipe. We were at Alexandra Palace until the BBC rightly decided enough was enough and they signed an agreement with ME us use the Metron and I found myself out of work.Arthur Graham: What date w[…]

Alan Lawson

[…] form of wipe. We were at Alexandra Palace until the BBC rightly decided enough was enough and they signed an […]

Roy Fowler

[…] of going there was of course it enabled me to get my ticket ACT didn't have jurisdiction but they were happy enough to recruit membership from, from BBC Television.  So I promptly applied for my ticket and got it, in round figures I was at 13000 my membership number. In terms of being a c[…]

Virginia McKenna

[…]The Edwardians (1972-4),[105] and the one I was in was called ‘Darling Daisy’. The costumes were, to be believed, they were so beautiful. As only the BBC can do, I think – certainly in those days – the quality of the production in every way. I mean, even your petticoat, which was never seen; everyth[…]
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