[…]rden; Autumn Work in the Garden; Storing Vegetables Outdoors; Storing Vegetables Indoors, and Making a Compost Heap. Then, a little later, there was, BBC had a radio feature called Radio Allotment. And they gave advice, of the same sort really, this radio allotment was a piece of land, garden at the[…]
[…]uld work in the studio during the day and then maybe go out and do locations at night and there was an actor called Bruce Belfridge who had come from BBC who was doing his dialogue with a very strong Welsh accent. I said doesn’t anybody mind about this and he said, ‘No they don’t seem to. I thought […]
[…] to watch ’em. So I always made sure at the BBC, I rang up the publicity people and I always […]
[…] in 13 languages and I got the translators from the BBC, whatever language came up RF : You're based where? […]
[…] . But by the time talkies came I was talking BBC posh like everybo dy else I: Well, one had […]
[…] studios, a three-way tussle had been in progress between the BBC, the Post Office, and John Logie Baird, over the […]
[…]e seventies and eighties. There was a lot of 16mm film being used for broadcast television.AM: Yes. News film was all 16mm reversal. For example, the BBC largely used 16mm, and ultimately negative film for film location sequences in dramas and so on.PF: Yes. Obviously, that gave it a more natural lo[…]
[…]l Street eventually closed down. Nothing to do with the fact that I came and joined them. The main shop was in Queen Margaret Drive, not far from the BBC, and eventually I was decanted up to Queen Margaret Drive and I stayed there for six years but the one thing about that job, even though I was sur[…]
