[…] in Europe probably the biggest in the world because for five years and more it had been the host, the communications host to a whole range of exiled broadcasters whose countries had been overrun and who had arrived in Britain in the hope of continuing to transmit their message to the occupied count[…]
[…]pic Games.” And the…as I arrived in Sydney, Bob Stead, who was the BBCs representative in Sydney said, well you might as well go home we’re…the broadcasters are boycotting the games and in any case there’ll be…the War is on, the troops are on and they’ve gone into Egypt, but the Americans have[…]
[…]e. And a lot of people in government are very biased, very biased indeed. Politicians, biased to hell, all of them. By and large we just get the best broadcasters and if they show in their work a certain amount of bias, I believe the British public are perfectly capable of recognising that. Of cours[…]
[…]have anything to do with the delivery of welfare payments, because this is a welfare payment. This has got nothing at all to do with a public service broadcaster, what, why? And they're going to get the policy, so, effectively, they're going to be managing a welfare payment. And I think it's absolut[…]
[…]sp; We are going through some of the same tensions now with ISIS. IRA attacks on British civilians etc. created great tensions. For broadcasters, reporting such fraught issues was a problem, particularly with Thatcher Government in place. There could be outrage: Panorama filmed IRA[…]
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[…]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[…]
SIDE 1 VOICE FILE NAME: Peter Dimmock - Interview Interviewer Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson Key:-I: InterviewerM: Norman SwallowP: Peter DimmockS.l - sounds like I: First of all, Peter, when and where were[…]
