[…]s in the school who obviously, I had never been his treasure, and he said, I don't know what will happen to you after the army said, finish up in the BBC. I should think. And there you are. You see, they did actually know their boys. And as it happened, I didn't finish up in the BBC, but I might I h[…]
[…]college I was … went to the careers office and they suggested me for two basic jobs, and one was a research oficer at Equity and one was a trainee in BBC radio, and I applied for both and got down to the last two of the Equity job, but i was, you know, all I had was an academic degree I had absolute[…]
[…] What happened when you left National Service after two years? NEVILLE WORTMAN: I came out of National Service and at that time the BBC … it was all in black and white of course … the editor of a local newspaper had got a contract to do short stories on television and so I illustra[…]
[…]r radar side, he was an absolute BrainBox. Very, very clever. And we both got demobbed more or less at the same time, I managed to get a job with the BBC. And Gordon went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both we[…]
[…]ks (laughs) Verity Lambert was my PA and - er - you can imagine Verity running - she ran - she ran the show.Q: That was - er - ABC’s version of BBC’s ‘Monitor’ wasn’t it?00:11:34 JOE: Well - that’s a good - it’s a good question it was the ABC’s version of ‘Monito[…]
[…]ded people at Unity and I suppose I've continued to offend people, I can't blame Unity only for that, I've offended people all over the place, at the BBC and everywhere. Norman Swallow: Johnny, does that mean you wrote a play and submitted it to Unity Johnny Speight: Yes, I wrote plays, yes, and one[…]
[…] lieu of the money that they owed me. But the whole point was that during - when I first got this assignment from Spot News, they asked me to contact BBC news to work out and to get a liaison agreement between Spot and the BBC. This was in '52. And the BBC then, their newsreel was a magazine program[…]
[…] whose last major series was ‘Shock of the New’, for BBC in 1980. And so, I’ve been coming and going […]
[…]ould only have the news if we can do something different with it. So we thought there are already two very good half hour news programmes on the BBC and on ITV, what can we do that’s different. And we decidedthat what British television needed was a longer, more analytical news which got a grip[…]
[…]ading to section so I had to be replaced by somebody to go out on this exercise was misaligned in Frederick other or no other people available. Well, BBC had staff but obviously PPC prevented the people from doing it. So we went out on the road for quite a long time, actually.Gerald Chambers 3[…]
