[…]on’t get a lot of parts with an accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was about... How old w[…]
[…]me - all the commercial companies that overstaffed to begin with, and they were now shedding staff. So it was even worse and I'd applied to the BBC to get a job as a trainee cameraman and failed that. I mean, I, you know, they'd ask if you're a member of a camera club, or I mean, it was bizarr[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]e 1 Alan Lawson 0:03 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Tony Bridgewater, senior BBC Television engineer, pioneer television engineer. Interviewer, Norman Swallow, and Alan Lawson recorded on the 28th of June 1990. Side one No[…]
[…]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[…]
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