[…]f art school at Farnham, and I should say that painting is also a thing in my family. I wasn't painting but I was being painted. And I applied to the BBC and it shot through very quickly. It was how lucky I suddenly got this invitation from one called Gertrude Leonard and met John O Bride? not at th[…]
[…]and chippies and classrooms benefit as well. However, for me, it was absolutely marvellous because it was the greatest training ground apart from the BBC, I suppose the crown Film Unit, andUnknown Speaker 9:11 I'm working toRobert Angel 9:16 I was working with an editor calle[…]
[…] stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, […]
[…] Cans[?] comics, a sort of a technical paper, a technical book for people building amateur radios and stuff like that. And this was the time when the BBC were transmitting 30 line TV on long-wave I think, and medium-wave.Alan Lawson: Yes.David Robson: And I built the Nipkow disk and the picture elem[…]
[…] I was the only cameraman for the Newsreel Association, the BBC sent a cameraman but he packed up, I repaired […]
[…]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[…]
[…]hought it was a contribution to the Commonwealth Games, which was opened by David Steele MP at the time. Steve Morrison did a whole thing on this, on BBC Television and BBC Radio and got sacked by the BBC for doing it because he hadn't told them what it was about. They didn't realise it was a protes[…]
