[…]ar was laughing at the end of the phone and I didn't get a direct answer at all. And I had apparently got the job. There had been three positions and Bob Saunders must know he got one of them. JOHN got one and I got the third. So that that was the start of it all whichwas a very great experien[…]
[…] TV. SUMMARY: In this interview from 1990, Tomlin talks to Bob Allen about his career, concentrating mainly on the pre-war period. […]
[…]held up the mic, I went up to the ring and did a brief interview with me as I went in. You know “What were the chances? Was I going to win the thirty bob? Would I stand the three rounds?’ “Oh yes of course” I said. So we went in and put on the gloves ‘DING’ the first round, went out. This blo[…]
[…]ase, Alan was on that, and I heard the story from Thorold Dickinson and I think it was very largely Thorold’s idea.EC: Thorold, me and the cameraman, Bob Martin. Yes I can tell you exactly what happened.SC: Yes, do.EC: Basil Dean is on the side here and the re's the door there and now the police com[…]
[…]nt shooting down there for two weeks and then I progressed from there.Do you remember what your first salary was?Erm, I got 1 pound. I think I got 30 bob, I think my trainee salary was 30 or 35 shillings a week I think yes.And how did you get to work?I used to get lifts, I used to stand on corners, […]
[…] six of us, Keith Rogers, myself – initially, Harold Cox who had an ancient old Rolls Royce we always used to laugh about parked outside the hut, and Bob Dougal who then subsequently became an announcer and Ian Orr-Ewing was our boss. He had a great deal to do with outside broadcast before the[…]
[…] come high wind or whatever, dead on line, no overtime for him at all. But everybody was looking for overtime there to more money. At two bob an hour and 47 hours a week, even in those days it was good money, but wasn’t all that. I think, Overton was getting about £15.00 a week as […]
[…]eraman, and then Michael Currer-Briggs came as the second cameraman, and Larry Pauser[?] came as Tubby's assistant, and Peter Brown[?] came also, and Bob Camplin.[?]Sidney Cole: Wasn't Cynthia on it?Kay Mander: Well, Cynthia was the reason for the company starting, because we wanted an animation ben[…]
