Guido Coen

[…]en those days and now when you're in charge of the place.GC: It all changed when first of all Alf passed away, Riverside had already been sold to the BBC, Southall was decrepit anyway, and he only had a lease on it, we discarded it and concentrated here, when Alf died the whole situation changed, I […]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]ds “She come down.” And he was absolutely in love with this. I spoke to Ronnie about him and I said “Why doesn’t Rank come to an arrangement with the BBC, give him decent equipment, because he was using these awful old disc things that rumbled and thumped, and must have weighed a ton; give him a dec[…]

BEHP Bulletin no 8 June 2021

[…] Prior transcribed as soon as poss ible and recommended to BBC/Sussex project as he is a very significant figure in […]

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Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…] I wanted to do, I went to St. Martin's for evening classes on set design and actually it's Steven Bundy, I just remember his name, he worked for the BBC. Do you remember him? No..? [laughing] He was a set designer and so I did a year of that so the I had that behind me so I started going... I appli[…]

Yvette Vanson

[…]g the films, was, publicity. It seemed to me, there’s no point in making the damn things if nobody’s going to watch ’em. So I always made sure at the BBC, I rang up the publicity people and I always made sure that the press got copies and all that stuff. And, chatted people up and tried to get showi[…]
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