[…]wer is Janet McBain, Date of Recording 14 07 2018] [Start of Recording] [00:00]I: So, this is an interview with John Agnew for the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's oral history project. The interviewer is Janet McBain, the date is 14 July 2018 and the place is the STV's studio in Gla[…]
[…]ic to recruit within the BBC. PB-C: I think that’s true. I think the BBC at that stage had their own union, the ABS. DB: The Association of Broadcasting Staffs, yes. PB-C: That’s right, yeah. But although that was important from my point of view, my recollection is that I thought ‘wel[…]
[…]ted school, in Coventry, St Joseph’s, Coventry, in the infants there. And it was good for my father because through Birmingham BBC they started doing broadcasts from the theatre of the Coventry Hippodrome orchestra, MD’d by my father and he became quite well known. In fact, John P, you remember[…]
[…]novelist, and Monte Slater and others were involved. Anyway, so Rosa said, don't give up your writing, whereas Edgar ansty later when I wrote wrote a broadcast for BBC, on what, on the Cotswolds, from the point of view was making a film about the Cotswolds was furious with me and said, You should ha[…]
[…]e Percy Hindmarsh....Yes.He used to be the, the drive, well, what Technicolor called the drive maintenance but in the actual fact he was the printing engineer and all that kind of thing.Yes.Bill Norris was the, was the maintenance engineer for all the other stuff. In fact Bill Norris and I, that was[…]
[…]a Palace, to do the gardening show and of course it was my jobs to get the cables out there, miles of cables.RF: Did you do more distant OBs [Outside Broadcasts]?BH: There weren't in those days, only really the length of the cable.RF: No, they had some trucks, they had the OB trucks. They had them s[…]
[…]ersity in Essex where Essex had a fabulous technical infrastructure of three telephone exchanges for a phone for each students' residence, they had a broadcast radio studio which was designed to BBC standards with PPMs with Janet Fields with all the bits you would expect to find in an actual broadca[…]
[…]icers were doing quite well but for other ranks it was hammocks long and pretty crowded conditions they are very hot. Yes it was. Yes I remember they broadcast the message from the prime minister saying that he was sorry but do you know to the shortage of shipping and all this sort of thing. Conditi[…]
[…] thing that was possible and that was the sort of thing which we did. And while doing that I was also producing the Prime Minister, prime-ministerial broadcasts, perhaps that was a bit laterNorman Swallow: Grace Wyndham Goldie of course, you mentioned her earlier, she was current-affairs, the depart[…]
[…] any of us, want to do were the party political broadcast or the ministerial broadcasts, all of which were very […]
