Rudolph (Rudi) Cartier

[…]yone in television. I'll introduce you he said and. So the next day came an invitation to meet Michael Barry at the Royal Automobile Club, not at the BBC, and we started talking and I said and may I tell you what I think of BBC Television. He said yes, tell me. And I said I think nothing, it's just […]

Joan Kemp

[…] said, "Commercial television is coming up." Had you done any BBC television as an actress, or as a director? Joan Kemp-Welch: […]

David Elstein

[…]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 -                     […]

Michael Darlow transcript

[…] to go out – only one TV service - on BBC TV on New Year’s Day 1959. Once again playing […]

Anne V Coates

[…]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 […]

Simon Rose

[…] 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[…]

Betty Willingale

[…]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[…]

Harry Coventry

[…], my father had a job. He worked in London with a Cable and Wireless company making telephone cable, basically. But I we had no, no hook up with with BBC, we listen to it. Listen to it on radio every, every day, basically. And when I was three and a half, the war started and and that part of London,[…]
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