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[…]s postgraduate academic work, got scholarship at Oxford but supervisor left for another job. Looked at alternative careers: Guardian, Unilever, Ford, BBC all said Yes. 8.15 -                     […]

[…] it's like this, this angel is going up to heaven. And it's very Ken Russell ish. And I think on the basis for that film, he got his first job at the BBC. And another film that was extremely impressive was by Peter Wilkins, it was called forgotten faces. And it was about the uprising against the aga[…]

[…]s in Peek Frean’s factory. Mm, really would have loved to work in the theatre but knew nothing about it. Sort of thought that perhaps working for The BBC would be a wonderful place to start because there would be programmes going on and also a weekly pay cheque or, you know, pay packet in this. So I[…]

[…]lark? No. Jim Clark? No not Jim, he wasn’t around then. No. I was thinking... Well, there was Robert Clark[ph] who was editor[??] at[??] the BBC[??-8:42]. No, it wasn’t... No. His name’s... I can see his face but I can’t remember his name. Not to worry, because it will be a matter of […]

[…]ell I prefer the broadcasters that's here. But I had a great problem trying to get in at that time. And all the ITV companies turned me down. But the BBC read through my thing and said Would I like to I then applied to the BBC to go in as the as the the man in charge of the Russian service in Bush h[…]

[…]folio, which I did and he got in touch with Roy Oxley2 who had been a fellow art director, now at this time, which by now was 1951 he was at the BBC. Now the head of design there at that time was Peter Bax3 and they, now what happened, oh I think it was the usual thing, they said apply, an[…]

[…]atre and with - as of that time - and your career as an actress. Someone came to you and said, "Commercial television is coming up." Had you done any BBC television as an actress, or as a director?Joan Kemp-Welch: Well as an actress, as I say, the one time I told you, at the Alexandria Palace w[…]

[…]ing up ideas for books only it's probably quicker. I don't see why shouldn't be I able to do that, I mean it might be quite interesting. Actually the BBC represented a kind ofNorman Swallow: publisherDavid Attenborough: Well, more than that, it represented a kind of university really, it represented[…]