Frederick Bentham

[…] 54. This friend colleague of mine, the bear had been getting in touch with television, which was about to burst out in commercial television and the BBC was also pulling the stops out. Because one day they were going to have Television Centre, and they wanted to use Riverside studios to still use i[…]

Diana Morgan

[…]h, [with Siler??] I played in a play at Wyndhams. And I got married. SC: When did you get married? DM: 1934. And that year Bobby joined the BBC. And Noel Marshall sent for us and said ‘I’m doing a revue, will you work on it?’ And we’d never done anything like that before. So we said ‘Certa[…]

Kenneth Griffith

[…]people, it seems to be a characteristic. I mean, Dylan Thomas had it, didn't he?  He had what we call standard English. Better than ... not BBC Standard English, something much bigger than that. But as you say, no accent. Kenneth Griffith  31:19  Yes, Dylan Thomas […]

Bruce Anderson

[…]of status and provided some very intelligent and worthwhile contributors. I think, I think breaking up the old TV branch was good because it gave the BBC a sensible voice. Its weakness, there was two fold in respect of television. One, ITV became quite a the worst aspects of ITV that in the past hav[…]

Francis Searle

[…] inaccurate quite frequently. That's notSpeaker 1  37:22  the first time, no, no, no, the credit was Gordon parry, actually, I did ring the BBC on that, and they put out an apology, and so on. Power now, right? So then, now we're still up in Manchester, aren'tUnknown Speaker  37:49 &n[…]
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