[…]for obvious reasons. So none of this emerged at all. And of course it gave particular emphasis when one did know it to the latter years of my work in broadcasting because of that acute sense of tension generated by the events in the north of Ireland and the acute tension which resulted between Engla[…]
[…]wsreel stories, but slowly and slowly it came along, and more important stories. Because more important stories came along the news division at Broadcasting House, under that dreadful man Tahu Hole, the New Zealander, finally realised that there was something up there that had something to do […]
[…]ork for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both went into into television, broadcasting but on opposite sides, but we kept in touch with each other for many, many years until he died, sadly, at a very young age, but he was a […]
[…]stry it gets very confusing, as he and I found when we all worked together with about another 18 Johns years ago. But John started life in broadcasting with the BBC in radio in programme engineering, eventually became a studio manager and eventually a producer of radio, moved to the north[…]
[…]was on. There was Bandwagon… oh that used to come… that was when Richard Murdoch and Arthur Askey pretended they had a flat on the top of Broadcasting House. And that flat, when I went… on my first day in the BBC looking round Broadcasting House, I was shown that studio, and it was[…]
[…] Jimmy Bell, Jimmy Bell. And we used to do a broadcast from there once a week for the BBC. And […]
[…]rganist in those days was a Scots called...Alan Lawson: Was it Sandy McPherson?David Robson: No, it was - Jimmy Bell, Jimmy Bell. And we used to do a broadcast from there once a week for the BBC. And one day, in the mornings this was - the cleaners had to be dead quiet during the half an hour transm[…]
[…]wcastle. I went into digs and I used to be on shift in the control room at the studio centre. We used to do days and evenings. Because in those days, broadcasting finished on the stroke of midnight. There was just the light programme and the regional programmes which developed into other programmes […]
[…] country, all over the world and we always used to broadcast the services on the Sunday. And on the Saturday […]
[…]bsp; And I stayed with the PA for about nearly a year, but I’d seen this advertisement in the papers for a television outside broadcast producer. So I thought, well, television is the coming thing I’d read about in magazines and how well it was doing in America and I [u[…]
