[…]didn't find out until the early 1960s? All this?Philip Donnellan: Well I had a standard southern English accent. Indeed that's why I joined the BBC I was brought into the BBC as an announcer because I had an impeccable standard southern English accent and that was the accent I remember in my f[…]
[…] took French and German and then lastly Spanish which has stood me in good stead because I ended up when I left school in the European service of the BBC for a year and a half before I was called up at 18 and a half. When the war finished, I was seconded by my regiment to become the Unterhaltungsche[…]
[…]r radar side, he was an absolute BrainBox. Very, very clever. And we both got demobbed more or less at the same time, I managed to get a job with the BBC. And Gordon went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both we[…]
[…] matter.It was after my demob in 46 that I got my first permanent job which was BBC Radio. Stephen Peet: While you were at school and Keeble College were you a […]
[…]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[…]
[…] January 1992. DISC 1 Side One Track 1NS: First of all Maggie, when and where were you born?MD: Newcastle on Tyne 1922. I am the same age as the BBC (both laugh).NS: What kind of schooling did you do?MD: I went to school very early, I think you would call it elementary school in those days.It w[…]
[…]ch was 30 weeks in London. And then thought I would like to go back to the West Country, where my family were, but my father suggested I apply to the BBC in London. I thought of applying to independent television that was just starting in Plymouth under Peter Cadbury. Oh no, apply to the BBC. So I d[…]
[…] early 1950s he moved into television production for both the BBC and ATV, specialising particularly in musical variety shows. Notable […]
[…]g with him once much later on in television, when Bill Lyon-Shaw and I were working - Bill Lyon-Shaw was the producer, I was the floor manager at the BBC, and we used to a show called Life Begins at Sixty, and everybody in the cast was over sixty, and everybody in the audience was over sixty! [laugh[…]
