[…]BC employment, if you so wish. After that, you can look around as opportunity occurs. There are very large number of staff postings internally in the BBC. In fact, most of the higher appointments are filled from their own staff. So if you get something which isn't ideal, there's no reason why you sh[…]
[…];vessels. Or submarines or any hostile enemy any ship radio back and the petrol bombers would go out and they were fitted with a heavy gun in the nose of&n[…]
[…] - when I first got this assignment from Spot News, they asked me to contact BBC news to work out and to get a liaison agreement between Spot and the BBC. This was in '52. And the BBC then, their newsreel was a magazine programme that they used to produce up at Alexandra Palace and it was the first […]
[…] called Bill Ward who was a senior Producer at the BBC. And of course, when ATV started he was the man […]
[…]mandy we had a Boston which we used for filming all sorts of strikes around the time of , it could operate with the other Bostons, it was a low level bomber.We made hundreds of aircraft recognition films. Funny enough it was developed by Technicolor by George Gunn, didn't he get an OBE for it, he di[…]
[…]frames long. And it was very, very interesting to, for a young person, to have the experience of examining every shot of a film by such a very famous director. Gloria Sachs 12:14 How old were you at this time? Margaret Thomson 12:16 I was 25. Gloria Sachs […]
[…]letely took hold of me and in my head deciding, atthe age of 15 deciding what to do when I left school there were threechoices, films, theatre or the BBC. Not acting, appearing but on theproduction side. Films where always favourite. theatre was a lot of nightwork which I didn't fancy and the BBC wa[…]
[…] lessons. SF: Yes. And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC. SF: Yes. Started as a floor manager. SF: Yes. And […]
[…]on’t get a lot of parts with an accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was about... How old w[…]
[…]s the Chair. There was- and the radio one came up and I put myself forward for election. There was about six or seven candidates. One of them was Sue Harris. I won the election. So, I went on full, I officially could have had full-time release. I never actually took it, because I told you, know what[…]
