Reg Sutton

[…] always been my ambition to get a job in the BBC. The reason being that next door but one to […]

Waris Hussein

[…]f times in the book of short stories. So that was one aspect of her life. In order to keep us here and make a living, she managed to get a job at the BBC in Bush House, which in those days broadcast to the Far East. So she used to broadcast in Hindi and Urdu at £25 a week. My father was not allowed […]

Harry Fowler

[…]isit…HF: Right. Well I was doing these clubs. Now one of the clubs was frequented by journalists -I didn’t know it at the time – and reporters at the BBC which was radio in those days. And I went in with my papers as I did once a day, shouting out “Germans in Berlin, Star paper” and a man behind the[…]

David Prosser

[…]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[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]The River Plate as a result of that. So I had some mentors. And Basil Dearden was a mentor of mine as well. And in the years following my time at the BBC I became 2nd unit director on The Four Just Men, Basil was very good to me and gave me chunks of series to do which     &[…]

Donald Wilson

[…]away Italy's real got the money from unbelievable. They arrived from Central Europe. And in no time they're gonna engage officers nearly opposite the BBC out there important and start making making movies. Anyway, I went ahead to go and see him for my employment. And he said to me, and I assure you […]

Val Guest

[…]ed out to be a very clever lady.RF: They all had a talent of arts, Peter Rogers, Betty BoxVG: Otherwise, I never went back to the Bush again till the BBC did a thing on me. And I had to go back to the Bush and film on the very stage we worked on and my god that brought back memories, this is where t[…]
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