Richard Levin

[…]Olympia coming along. Would you like to do some designs for it? I said yes, of course. So she said we were just building. This was a we are building, Broadcasting House at the moment we'd like to feature that. So my first job is to feature the new home of Broadcasting and to do a separate stand for […]

Edward Dryhurst

[…]en I opened the door of this pub I could hear myself playing the piano. I thought, I'm going crackers! But I wasn't, it was the same soundtrack being broadcast by the BBC.Roy Fowler: Extraordinary. And you recognised your touch?Eddie Dryhurst: Well I naturally recognised the tune right away and, I r[…]

Jimmy Wright

[…]ich had this marvelous offer from South Africa from a b c TV South African broadcasting television company. They were wanting to set up television in South Africa&nb[…]

Peter Proud

[…]sp;and I said I wantto go to be an Architect and I ought to switch to Engineering. So he said"you do what you likemy boy" so I went to Engineering and[…]

Lois Singer

[…]ns. Yes. Lois Singer  8:49  While I was working in the Children's Hour, I was the departmental secretary. I sometimes got to broadcast. We used to have quizzes and all sorts of radio parties with the children. I found myself taking part in them. I came across drama on radio […]

Sheelagh Rees

[…]per, the famous Belfast Telegraph, of which John Cole used to be the editor.Yes.And asking for people and I wrote and I had an interview at Broadcasting House.Where, in, in Belfast?[Laughter]2In Belfast.Right.And I think it was Mrs Haverfield, Mrs Haverfield either interviewed me but or wa[…]

Yvonne Littlewood

[…] I got to understand about they had to make money to run the BBC programmes, and he used to do the weekly financial document that was taken across to Broadcasting House to the Controller of Finance, or Chief Accountant, who was a man called J.G.L. Francis I think.[10:24]And there was also a, they us[…]

Tony Bridgewater

[…]sp; And it was sorry. It wasn't...technical question. There was no sound because... Tony Bridgewater  24:14  We weren't broadcasting Alan Lawson  24:17  In Selfridges or wherever. Or was there sound? Tony Bridgewater  24:19 &[…]
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