Elizabeth (Liz) Bale

[…]ch was 30 weeks in London. And then thought I would like to go back to the West Country, where my family were, but my father suggested I apply to the BBC in London. I thought of applying to independent television that was just starting in Plymouth under Peter Cadbury. Oh no, apply to the BBC. So I d[…]

Sandy Ross

[…]hought it was a contribution to the Commonwealth Games, which was opened by David Steele MP at the time. Steve Morrison did a whole thing on this, on BBC Television and BBC Radio and got sacked by the BBC for doing it because he hadn't told them what it was about. They didn't realise it was a protes[…]

Jenny Barraclough

[…]actor sometimes to read the minimalcommentary. Yeah.Can we stop for a second year just because I feel yes. It's….SRAt the end of the 80s you left the BBC, having been there a long time, and set up your ownproduction company. Can you tell me why you did that?JBWell. I remember it was very much agains[…]

Moira Armstrong

[…]ays did Shakespeare in the garden every summer because we had an English teacher who herself was an actress and, and did a lot of broadcasting on The BBC in, in Aberdeen. So I played Portia in The Merchant Of Venice when before I left school.And did that continue at university? Yes, it did, yes.Moir[…]

Michael Colomb

Alan Lawson  0:05  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project. Michael Colomb, BBC TV sound engineer, dubbing mixer and director of better sound of Endell Street interview. Alan Lawson, recorded on the 12th of June 1995. side one you know, first and foremost, wh[…]

Lindsay Anderson

[…]Film Unit, they didn’t expect me to be a member of the Union. But when I did together with a friend, Guy Brenton, who was working at that time at the BBC and I'd known at Oxford, he wanted to make a film about deaf children and he came to me with the idea and said would I help him because I had had […]

MEO, ANN BECTU copy

[…] astonished me was the first job I did for the BBC was to edit the entire recording of the Test […]

Ann Meo

[…]wn to the left. That’s the sort of stuff we want to hear about. And then the other thing that astonished me was the first job I did for the BBC was to edit the entire recording of the Test Match at the Oval – well you’re a cricket expert – what was the very famous Test Match in about the ‘[…]
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