Bill Ward

[…]ard  1:28   I didn't know. I never had any idea. Hadn't the faintest idea? I got into into radio because I joined  BBC Plymouth, 5PY, which was a local radio station BBC, of course, had to be in those days, 1932 ,32 and my father knew the chief engineer of the Plym[…]

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     &[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]ppose about 1963 as far as color started I forget exactly what it was that BBC toured going on but later than that I think that a little later that ye[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]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.[…]

Ena Baga

[…]ed to go. It was upstairs, I’m not sure if it wasn’t called the Lyric Club. I was asked to do a broadcast at St George’s Hall, well when I got to the BBC, they looked at the performers’ list, they said everything in St Georges has been cancelled - so far as I know, I had my rehearsal there-, I thoug[…]

Rodney Giesler

[…]we call nowadays a "spin-off".Rodney Giesler: A spin-off. And he got his Eady Money, and fine, everyone was happy. I then went to do some work at the BBC called "View & Teach" which was a television series to teach English to foreign speakers.John Legard: Did you have an agent?Rodney Giesler: No[…]

Joan Kemp-Welch

[…]atre and with - as of that time - and your career as an actress. Someone came to you and said, "Commercial television is coming up." Had you done any BBC television as an actress, or as a director?Joan Kemp-Welch: Well as an actress, as I say, the one time I told you, at the Alexandria Palace w[…]

Joan Kemp

[…] said, "Commercial television is coming up." Had you done any BBC television as an actress, or as a director? Joan […]
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