[…]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[…]
[…]sspenny (?) Road Hendon and then I had a whole room - for the - to keep the equipment in. And that was when I would have first been in touch with the BBC would have been would, have been from the spare bedroom at 4 Cresspenny Road (?) That’s where you would have phoned me or I would have phoned you.[…]
[…] other people who was down and out and getting a bit of money doing radio work was... Ian...Ian ...oh lord... Ian Mc-something, who became one of the BBC's chief overseas people... the name's gone. [**NB: Might be Ian McDougall**] And anyway... Easter 1948... Eventually I came back to England, wande[…]
[…] program. But it was his program and I was caught in between. I never bet bit. It was kind of a mediator and there was one program we wanted to do on BBC announcers. We had Mac Hobley . Sylvia Peters I think it was very good. And we did a whole program based on BBC announcements and we we had a lot […]
[…] 39:46  Were you the only camera man on that? Oh yeah, I was theSpeaker 1  39:50  only cameraman for the news rivers. For us, the BBC sent his cameraman, but he packed up. I repaired. Camera for him at Milan, because his camera packed up, and he was the only camera he got, and he[…]
[…]as made, I was sent out to Dreghorn in Irvine to be an AV [Audio Visual] Engineer. Two months after that, luckily enough, I got an interview with the BBC. BBC Scotland. And I got a job as an Assistant Engineer based in Aberdeen - Beechgrove - and after about a year and a half from that, I then came […]
