Tim Emblem-English (TE) Archive Telecine Specialist, Former BBC Broadcast Engineer Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Carolyn Rickards (CR) Date 21/05/2018 Length 01:48:52 CR: So we’re here with an interview today with Tim Emblem-English. Thank you very much for agreeing to[…]
[…]ied on, perhaps in a slightly lower sense. But then when I got into my looking for a job or getting through school and going to work, and joining the BBC, the fact that I actually had a portfolio of stuff that I had already done, although I originally worked for news, so it wasn't so relevant. Inter[…]
[…] What happened when you left National Service after two years? NEVILLE WORTMAN: I came out of National Service and at that time the BBC … it was all in black and white of course … the editor of a local newspaper had got a contract to do short stories on television and so I illustra[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]time, and then I saw this advertisement in The Times for an assistant secretary to the Director-General ofNancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 8the BBC. And I said to Kenneth Clark, ‘I’m going to apply for this’. And he said, ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake, you can’t do that. I mean Sir William Haley isn’[…]
[…]ck dissolve now’. Quick dissolve six feet and Gerald Cock, who became the first director of television when the service was put into the hands of the BBC by the government at that time, came to Cricklewood to do some recording for some OBs that he was going to make. In those days you see the corpora[…]
[…] to the Director-General of Nancy Tbomas DRAFT Page 9 the BBC. And I said to Kenneth Clark, ‘I’m going to […]
[…] whose last major series was ‘Shock of the New’, for BBC in 1980. And so, I’ve been coming and going […]
[…] it's like this, this angel is going up to heaven. And it's very Ken Russell ish. And I think on the basis for that film, he got his first job at the BBC. And another film that was extremely impressive was by Peter Wilkins, it was called forgotten faces. And it was about the uprising against the aga[…]
[…]ded people at Unity and I suppose I've continued to offend people, I can't blame Unity only for that, I've offended people all over the place, at the BBC and everywhere. Norman Swallow: Johnny, does that mean you wrote a play and submitted it to Unity Johnny Speight: Yes, I wrote plays, yes, and one[…]
