Ted Candy

[…]possible to do. We, you can do it. They RAF bombed Budapest. Now, we got an area. They bombed it, and it's, I mean, they did, they bombed it was 1000 bomber rate, and there was the now we hadn't got any pictures of the bomb. We got the pictures of the bombers taking off. The bomb was taking off, sil[…]

Martin Gibbons

[…]othing at all. And there were a lot of fans of Tony Hancock, that we're we're desperate to hear his work again, there was nothing coming out from the BBC. And the decision was made in 1976, to form a society. And the aim of the society was to try and get more of Tony's work back on the radio and bac[…]

Carol Owens

[…]ion sphere.SPEAKER: F10 [Carol Owens] Completely it was. it was head office as it were so it was it was working right into the heart of the corporate BBC.SPEAKER: F15 [Carol Owens]One of the early things that I did which was an eye opener was I visited the National Association of Broadcasters Conven[…]

Graham Smart

[…]p to BL camera for that. And so he thought, well, let's go with it. So this conglomerate bought out Gateway.Hugh was still managing director, I was a director. And we still kept everybody things didn't change for quite a few months, we got new equipment in.Manny Yospa  2:33  But what was t[…]

Robert Scott

[…]BC which is what I did. The course, what it had actually done was to give you a really good, broad training and then, so I ended up on station at the BBC. I always wanted to work in Operations and they put me in to Communications for some reason despite the fact that I had no particular training in […]

Teddy Darvas

[…]ing opposite him. He had had quite a few to drink and Alan started the news bulletin and said 'Last night, the Royal Air Force carried out a thousand bomber raid over Hamburg. Preliminary reconnaissance photographs show that there are thousands of hamburgers streaming out of the city'. And he looked[…]

Michael Colomb

[…] I was offered a job as assistant dubbing mixer at Lady Ewell's British National. And the same time I'd applied for as assistant recorders job with a BBC. And the two things happen together. And it really was a crossroads because the British National came up said look, we want you to take the job. A[…]

Jean Anderson

[…]g in The King and I, very lovely girl. Never mind. John Legard: Not Virginia McKenna ?Jean Anderson:  No, because I worked with Virginia in films quite a lot.  No, Virginia McKenna also played it, so, no, can’t remember.Margaret Thomson: So at the moment, in a chronological sense, you[…]
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