[…]otland on the 17th of July, 1951 and I now live with the enemy here in Bristol. What else did you want to hear?  Martin Spence  0:43  Well, I think you've answered these. So your nationality is, you're Scots . Doug Allan  0:43   Yeah, I'm S[…]
[…]I’m going to have to stop for him. So we’re recording.Thank you Alan. So then there was the advertisement for directors and personnel to do, to start Channel Two, BBC2?Yes.And you?I applied for one of the traineeships I suppose because it was open to members of staff as well as people from the outsi[…]
[…]rom the network or reassembled the network and the local station, between the network and the local station, so we were all in effect part of WCBS TV channel 2 New York City and the CBS Television Network. Rodney Giesler:So you were going from coast to coast were you?Roy Fowler:No, no, no, no t[…]
[…] Ambassadors, with George Grossmith, [with Siler??] I played in a play at Wyndhams. And I got married. SC: When did you get married? DM: 1934. And that year Bobby joined the BBC. And Noel Marshall sent for us and said ‘I’m doing a revue, will you work on it?’ And we’d never done anything l[…]
[…] Cecil more often.But Kenneth Adam was I think good. He was a good head of channel.He was very good, they were good days in every area and certainly at Ealing. You would know better than I .[…]
[…]uld you believe. We played town halls and things all over Britain, always using a local choir. We were put opposite I think 20 Questions on the other channel and we knocked them out of the ratings and Kenneth Adam was furious. I remember that. But there it is, the all singing Mitchells, superb quali[…]
[…]al commitments the spirit of documentary lived on however, as can be recognised often in feature films and constantly in television. It has found new channels, reaches wider audiences and fulfils generously the purposes Grierson had in mind from the beginning. In 1939 Grierson was asked to set up a […]
