[…]ould only have the news if we can do something different with it. So we thought there are already two very good half hour news programmes on the BBC and on ITV, what can we do that’s different. And we decidedthat what British television needed was a longer, more analytical news which got a grip[…]
Alan Lawson 0:05 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Michael Colomb, BBC TV sound engineer, dubbing mixer and director of better sound of Endell Street interview. Alan Lawson, recorded on the 12th of June 1995. side one you know, first and foremost, wh[…]
[…]bsp;the copyright of this recording is vested in the British entertainment history project. The interviewee is Robin watched the former Controller of BBC Northern Ireland. The interviewer is Peter vile, and the date is the 13th of March 2023.Unknown Speaker 0:25 And before we start the i[…]
[…]n, it's really a totally different world that it was then 1959 I hadn't even taken my finals. They came around the universities. They, the BBC came around the universities recruiting people, and I happened to be walking through one of the halls of the university. And there was […]
[…]s postgraduate academic work, got scholarship at Oxford but supervisor left for another job. Looked at alternative careers: Guardian, Unilever, Ford, BBC all said Yes. 8.15 - […]
[…] 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[…]
