Carol Owens

[…]t of the corporate BBC.SPEAKER: F15 [Carol Owens]One of the early things that I did which was an eye opener was I visited the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas for the first time and saw the sheer scale of the industry there. And as part of the same trip we visited Apple h[…]

Bernard Ponsonby

[…] They were paranoid and their allegation used to be that every audience was effectively a pro-nationalist audience and they didn't quite say that the broadcasters were rigging it but they were saying that we weren't doing quite enough due diligence to make sure the audiences were balanced. That was […]

Taylor Downing

[…] which was the actual anniversary because we hadn’t finished the series but it went out that summer, prime time ITV, extraordinary to think of an ITV broadcaster today transmitting a historical documentary series.Richard’s concept behind the whole series was that it would be balanced between the Jew[…]

David Attenborough

[…]e thing, all this great rationalisation is a load of cobblers. But the lines that I took to myself is look are you, what are you primarily, are you a broadcaster or a naturalist. And the answer had to be I was actually a broadcaster, and it seemed to me then that that I couldn’t have earned a living[…]

Denis Forman

[…]to be nil. That is to say broadcasting there reflects theGovernment's view. Traditionally in the United States the degree of tolerance is 100% in thatbroadcasters are free, absolutely free to say whatever they like under the first amendment. InBritain, we thought, we think, we believed it was perhap[…]

denis-forman

[…] United States the degree of tolerance is 100% in that broadcasters are free, absolutely free to say whatever they like […]

Elizabeth (Liz) Bale

[…]nbsp; see, yes, this was quite an early idea to include. Include, includes, yeah, yeah, making sure that everybody was represented on a national broadcaster. I see Yeah, yeah. Elizabeth Bale  12:30  And I used to be sent down to a Asian restaurant in Park Street to see […]

Martin Gibbons

BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for any misinterpretation of the content of this interv[…]

Nancy Thomas

[…]and the whole of Chaucer and it was amazing, actually. And everybody, you see, wanted to come on to the Third Programme, and George Barnes, who was a broadcaster and he used to be fairly sort of wary of all these academics droning away, he didn’t really approve of them, and when family, you know, th[…]
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