[…]sp;I: The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Sir Paul Fox. One time Managing Director, BBC Television, Yorkshire Television. Interviewing Norman Swallow. Recorded on the 24th of March 1993. Side 1.First and foremost, wh[…]
[…]ry. That’s where I started school, in Coventry, St Joseph’s, Coventry, in the infants there. And it was good for my father because through Birmingham BBC they started doing broadcasts from the theatre of the Coventry Hippodrome orchestra, MD’d by my father and he became quite well known. In fac[…]
[…]for the best in the end, but it was from Brighton as he eventually got the job of Coventry Hippodrome from Coventry Hippodrome, it was the Birmingham BBC, who started him broadcasting.Unknown Speaker 17:50 We, it's interesting that I mean, in terms of broadcast and we go to a load come i[…]
[…]? And I can't remember having much advice from them. But, and I don't know where I got the idea from but we must get on to it quickly, I wrote to the BBC and asked them if I could have a job in the BBC, because like all sixteen, seventeen year olds, you don't know what you want to do. And I thought […]
[…] must get on to it quickly, I wrote to the BBC and asked them if I could have a job […]
[…]ovelty compendium to play the Saturday family show slot and the Late Night Show slot. At the time Tom and Jerry cartoons were gaining good ratings on BBC so I asked for ten of them in a programme and to provide a bit of variety between the non-stop mayhem of the cartoon characters’ warring I suggest[…]
[…] - which they did and er...then, all of a sudden, BBC rang me up...er...a gentleman er who I'd never heard […]
[…]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[…]
[…]randmother and I attended Regent Street Polytechnic and took courses in radio communications because, I�d always been my ambition to get a job in the BBC. The reason being that next door but one to us in Acton lived a relation called Harold Kirk who was chief research engineer in the BBC. And he and[…]
