[…]ah, I know that feeling is.Unknown Speaker 1:19 So just going right back to the beginning. Did your parents have anything to do with with broadcasting industry? No, but my father was interested in making cine films and he had a quarter track and half track tape machine. I remember going […]
[…]aid, “No, no, Mr. Norton is legitimate. He comes here. He hires casuals for the BBC.” So I went to the BBC. I said, “Fine, okay.” [I] walk around the Broadcasting House. And it was for one day. It was a Friday, one day. No it was a Wednesday, it was one day. So he says to me, “a couple of people off[…]
[…]30sJohn Taylor: And touring a lot I supposeBill Cotton Jr: Yes, he was away on tour. That's by and large how bands operated. He did his fair share of broadcasts but by and large it was a theatre a week plus sometimes 2 Sunday concerts. They worked very hard in those days. One period I remember the C[…]
[…]s we there were several of us. We were sent on a training course. We had to learn all the acronyms, or we were taken to Bush House. We. Were taken to Broadcasting House. We were in a house, I think, in Marylebone High Street, that subsequently fell down. Somebody said it was very rickety. We weren't[…]
[…]r years. Bill Ward 23:40 Yes, let's have a pause. Switch off, right. All right. This I was on the very first outside broadcast ever. Now, this was a three camera mobile unit which EMI built, and the first one was the Coronation of King George the Sixth. King George t[…]
[…]new. So I thought I'd either be a stockbroker because I was tremendously interested in stocks. And she has been in a rather academic sort of way or a broadcaster. So I wrote to a lot of stockbrokers and I wrote to a lot of broadcasters and, and asked them the stock brokers I didn't like when I met t[…]
[…]re for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall. Wrote various papers including one on the concept public service broadcasting – “a career shaping experience”. Hoggart had been on Pilkington Ctte, anti-ITV, pro-“uplifting” public monopoly: “ideas which I found ant[…]
Tim Emblem-English (TE) Archive Telecine Specialist, Former BBC Broadcast Engineer Interviewers: Paul Frith (PF) & Carolyn Rickards (CR) Date 21/05/2018 Length 01:48:52 CR: So we’re here with an interview today with Tim Emblem-English. Thank you very much for agreeing to[…]
[…]] wants his boy to do is to ring the BBC, or apply to them because they're looking for young men with foreign languages. Bingo! So at 17 I went up to Broadcasting House. And I think I had three interviews altogether and was made a Recorded Programmes Assistant. Vital.[Side 1, 11:05] NS: That's[…]
