[…]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[…]
[…], 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,[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] it was said the following day, OK we understand that BBC Television will try new things and has tried doing a […]
[…]and chippies and classrooms benefit as well. However, for me, it was absolutely marvellous because it was the greatest training ground apart from the BBC, I suppose the crown Film Unit, andUnknown Speaker 9:11 I'm working toRobert Angel 9:16 I was working with an editor calle[…]
[…] 35:43 on chess, and one or two others max Knight, of course was on was in constant use of one kind or another, I think Maxwell Knight, a BBC broadcaster.John Taylor 35:55 He turned out to be the head of one section of EMI five orPaddy Carey 35:59 six at the end, […]
