[…]as made, I was sent out to Dreghorn in Irvine to be an AV [Audio Visual] Engineer. Two months after that, luckily enough, I got an interview with the BBC. BBC Scotland. And I got a job as an Assistant Engineer based in Aberdeen - Beechgrove - and after about a year and a half from that, I then came […]
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[…] AM Born in India in 1916, Maurice Askew entered the film industry in 1938, working for The Religious Film Society. […]
[…]V fed into that was always, well, we'll show them! We'll show them that we're good enough to do it! So, it's like having this monolith next door. The BBC. It's always, I always enjoyed beating the BBC, showing them up for their slowness, their pomposity, it's almost a chipiness that I think comes ma[…]
[…]The copyright of this recording is vested in The BECTU History Project. Peggy Rignold, make-up artist, later to become Mrs Hyde-Chambers, wife of the film editor, and later to work for Lew Grade as an administrator. Recorded on the twenty-eighth of May 1995. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Side One.First w[…]