[…]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[…]
[…] about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there […]
[…] early 1950s he moved into television production for both the BBC and ATV, specialising particularly in musical variety shows. Notable […]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]g with him once much later on in television, when Bill Lyon-Shaw and I were working - Bill Lyon-Shaw was the producer, I was the floor manager at the BBC, and we used to a show called Life Begins at Sixty, and everybody in the cast was over sixty, and everybody in the audience was over sixty! [laugh[…]
