[…]wing who’s now Lord Orr-Ewing who had been a Wing Commander in radar during the war, and some faceless wonder from the appointments department of the BBC, I can’t even remember who it was, I think it might have been Jack Nott but I can’t remember. Anyway, there were two vacancies and I think t[…]
[…]? And I can't remember having much advice from them. But, and I don't know where I got the idea from but we must get on to it quickly, I wrote to the BBC and asked them if I could have a job in the BBC, because like all sixteen, seventeen year olds, you don't know what you want to do. And I thought […]
[…] who was that year retiring from being Managing Director of BBC Television and my old mate. And, and they gave a […]
[…]tish Entertainment History Project Interview No. 710 Interviewee: Anne Hanford, formerly Head of Television Library Services at the BBCInterviewer: Sue MaldenTranscriber: Linda Hall-Shaw SUE MALDEN: Thank you very much for talking to us Anne.ANNE HANFORD: It’[…]
[…]how she ended up in films. Her daughter was Juliet Rhys-Williams who was in fact a Liberal Member of Parliament and she was the governor of the BBC at the time, and I went to see her at the time and 8:01 she gave me one of those rather wonderful white five-pound notes [laughter] which have dis[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]y was formed, how it was formed, etc.Speaker 2 0:52 Yes, I can say that the Society was formed in 1976. Tony, sadly died in 1968, and the BBC have repeated some radio and television shows to the time of his death. And then there's been nothing at all. And there were a lot of fans of Tony[…]
[…]The Edwardians (1972-4),[105] and the one I was in was called ‘Darling Daisy’. The costumes were, to be believed, they were so beautiful. As only the BBC can do, I think – certainly in those days – the quality of the production in every way. I mean, even your petticoat, which was never seen; everyth[…]
[…] engineer, then went into the RAF for two years’ national service, 1952 – 54, and when I came out I went back to the GPO until 1957 when I joined the BBC as a Technical Operator in October 1957. MDWhat were your earliest memories of growing up in South East London? BAPlaying out in the str[…]
