[…]ion every Monday at 8:30. Thames had This Week every Thursday. Here were these two companies with a major public affairs programme. Central, even though Charles Denton was by then the Programme Controller, were interested in public affairs programme, they had people like John Pilge[…]
[…]and, he was a very small man, he spoke absolutely fluent Spanish and from Gibraltar he went to the to a place called MECAS, which was the Middle East Central Arabic Studies where Philby was an occasional visitor in after years. Donald Maitland went to MECAS, which was actually the British spy […]
[…]e any better with the sound effects, you know, being a grade D programme engineer. And of course it was soon after that, that we got out and got into central programme operation. John P. Hamilton 12:27 Well the amalgamation didn't happen until early '49 did it? […]
[…]ou’ve got a chance.’ I had to train for something to earn a living, so I tried first for the Old Vic School, which I failed, and then I tried for the Central School,[3] which I got into. So, when I was seventeen, I went to the Central School of Speech and Drama, which in those days was in the Albert[…]
[…]t theatre in Britain, and that was pulled down in the 60s.John Taylor: Where was it in Edinburgh.Jimmy Gilbert: It was just round the corner from the Central Hotel, right in the centre of Glasgow. It was one of the big Howard and Wyndham ones, they also had Liverpool as well, a big theatre in Liverp[…]
[…] completely obliterated the musical theatre and the music hall in central London because the Warner stood on the Gaiety sight […]
[…]ny was it?DS: Well no, because...Was it not?DS: No, because Rediffusion was the start of it. They started it and then joined immediately but what was Central before? John, come here please. When commercial television started it was just known as commercial television, wasn’t it?JPH: Er, yes.DS:[…]
[…]A’ have one more camera than ‘B’?I think it did, I think there were four in ‘A’ and three in ‘B’.Yes. Three in ‘B’.Weren’t there?But, but there was a central control room wasn't there?23Y es.Yes, yes.That's right. Well we had to have one control room.Mm, sure.We could just about plug.Yes.But I mean […]
[…] Three in ‘B’. Weren’t there? But, but there was a central control room wasn't there? Yvonne Littlewood DRAFT. Tape 1 […]
[…]he Beverley Sisters. I learnt a lot from the Bevs. Those people do not always feel the same way about what you ask them to do. You would ask Joy, the central Bev about something and she would be delighted and then Babs would say no and the other Bev, the name of whom I’ve forgotten....... (MD tails […]
