[…]t at all but I was very much in the shadow of it, in the ‘wake’ if you like of The World at War, and always had been fascinated by it. And unlike the BBC for instance, when they were making The Great War series in the mid-sixties, where they only bought a brief licence for the archive all of which e[…]
[…]ake refuge in education, and to make it films for Sixth Form type audiences and to distribute them on video. And so, in a sense, my career began with television being a very low quality and regarded by film makers and film technicians as something of a joke and not worth not worth working in. And en[…]
[…]ave been had some connection with the army or something anyway then it was a question of the voice over the coronation of Richard Dimbleby.SPEAKER: M4BBC wanted to march. So OK we got Richard down played overseas. Ha. Yes. The moment of crowning has come. No really I should have said. And he put his[…]
[…]Gaumont British News doing, again, run of the mill newsstories all over the place in England, Scotland and everywhere. And then a job came up with theBBC, I saw it advertised in the Times, so I thought I would have a go at that. So I got it. I got thisjob with Camera and BBC Television News based at[…]
[…]e never known anybody shoot with such low ratios. I mean when we went out shooting Peter shot the shot and that was it there was no messing about. No BBC 40 takes. It was just what he knew exactly what he wanted it was all absolutely planned that went in his head not on paper. And eventually they th[…]
[…]e?Yes, that’s right, mm.And it had a marble bathroom.[Laughter]Mind you we were in bunk beds, which was a bit of a letdown because my letter from the BBC said it would be dormitory type accommodation sharing, they didn’t say you would be in a bunk bed, you know.[05:06][Laughter]But anyway I’d been i[…]
[…] a bit of a letdown because my letter from the BBC said it would be dormitory type accommodation sharing, they […]
[…]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 […]
[…] Another one. I’ve actually got a picture of myself somewhere in there [Laughter]MIKE DICK: It says you’re an extra in the crowd in BBC Bunker, is that…PETE MURRAY: BBC?MIKE DICK: BBC Bunker. That’s, That’s how its termed… PETE MURRAY: I’ve never heard […]
