[…]college I was … went to the careers office and they suggested me for two basic jobs, and one was a research oficer at Equity and one was a trainee in BBC radio, and I applied for both and got down to the last two of the Equity job, but i was, you know, all I had was an academic degree I had absolute[…]
[…]ch was 30 weeks in London. And then thought I would like to go back to the West Country, where my family were, but my father suggested I apply to the BBC in London. I thought of applying to independent television that was just starting in Plymouth under Peter Cadbury. Oh no, apply to the BBC. So I d[…]
[…]ht, let's see if I can't get some more money, see if we can cover a bit more anyway. went looking for a job for more money and got interviewed by the BBC and was offered a job a secretarial job for less money. At which point my mum said, Look, Louise, you've always wanted to work in broadcasting, I'[…]
[…], my father had a job. He worked in London with a Cable and Wireless company making telephone cable, basically. But I we had no, no hook up with with BBC, we listen to it. Listen to it on radio every, every day, basically. And when I was three and a half, the war started and and that part of London,[…]
[…]s in Peek Frean’s factory. Mm, really would have loved to work in the theatre but knew nothing about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there would be programmes going on and also a weekly pay cheque or, you know, pay packet in this. So I[…]
[…]ell I prefer the broadcasters that's here. But I had a great problem trying to get in at that time. And all the ITV companies turned me down. But the BBC read through my thing and said Would I like to I then applied to the BBC to go in as the as the the man in charge of the Russian service in Bush h[…]
[…]st year with re-sits and I think it became apparent that it wasn't my thing, university, so my Dad knew a guy at the bank who knew of somebody at the BBC, John Byres, who was the Operations Manager at the BBC at the time so I went through and had a chat to John Byres and, fortunately, because I was […]
[…]f times in the book of short stories. So that was one aspect of her life. In order to keep us here and make a living, she managed to get a job at the BBC in Bush House, which in those days broadcast to the Far East. So she used to broadcast in Hindi and Urdu at £25 a week. My father was not allowed […]
[…]hat newspaper culture which, fortunately I moved into broadcasting and you really can't do that there. I: Did you go from the Sunday Post to the BBC? R: I did. I had previously, again as a student, applied for a job at Radio Clyde. I had gone in for a couple of hours to get work experience[…]
