[…]eramen in India and Burma afterwards. So, at least my bit of the war did some good for somebody.Bryan Langley: BECTU Interview Part 4A sighting of Mr Baird and working at BBC studios in the late '50s 1. Baird, the inventor of televisionAnd at the corner of Manet Street, before it became [uninte[…]
[…] he said, "I want you to go out and get a job." So the first place I went to, was the bit of the Palace which had been spared the fire, was the Logie Baird bit at the end.Alan Lawson: Old man Baird's bit.David Robson: So they were doing some research work and making television sets there, I thought,[…]
[…] fired.Alan Lawson : Reith was there then, at the BBC?Peter Birch : That's right, there was discipline in those days. After that I went to John Logie Baird Television - so I was with him for nearly two years, and I can say that I was an embryo television man. In fact I ran the demonstration studio f[…]
[…] the Deputy Shop Steward was the floor mixer on "Last Days of Dolwyn" a man called Alan Alan, he was terribly nice bloke, and the committee was Teddy Baird who was the Associate Producer on the film, Isobel Pargeter who was Production Manager and this focus puller it seems had overreached himself to[…]
[…]ul Rotha...in what exact capacity I'm never quite sure. Um, but Pat was Commanding Officer of the Operations Unit, and above him was, I think...Teddy Baird, who was commanding both the Operations Unit and the other...and there was another bloke above him as well, I think...Alan Lawson: Dalrymple! Er[…]
