[…]cause Virgilio was clapper as well. John Sharples was a great boffin as you had to be. There was the company radio station that handled ail the telex channels and so on, so you had some mechanics there. You got to know who in the company could fix things. John was a marvellous technician. I've known[…]
[…]binet racks you have now. They were iron racks built with metal panels across and amplifiers somewhere about six or seven feet high - three per channel, all with amplifiers on. And then three racks together called Bay-ex - a term which has gone on, very often referred to a room but it me[…]
[…]tographic record is converted least it  was in Pinewood. The location recording up until that time had always been conducted on what we call 500 channels, Western electric 500 channels of which we had three. And these were a scaled down version of the more solid studio recorder the 600 channel.[…]
[…]ndon location. And then we went up north to an RAF base, and the last ones were down there, and it was the last one wasn't done the BBC have done for Channel Five, we did exactly the same way. Just every now and again, Craig would stop and say and we'll be back after the break, what we discuss with […]
[…]nown Speaker  20:41  have backup recordings done there. And it was at the time when there was onlyUnknown Speaker  20:50  the one channel one independent channel on BBC only had BBC One it was a BBC Two started after that. And it was somebody that said it was we were doing a tran[…]
[…] also Documentaries were starting to come up a bit and one of the Documentaries that I worked on very early on, it was the opening of, I think it was Channel Four money that was put into it but the STV was commissioned to make it. It was a series of Scottish History, it was a 24/25 part history of S[…]
[…]ildren’s programmes - um - and then Edward Barnes - um - um01:27:30JOE: I think it was Monica SimmsQ: Yeah probably she went on to be - Controller of Channel - um - Radio Four and all sorts01:27:36JOE: I think it - yeah I think it was her - she had written it more or less - and produced it as wellQ:[…]
[…]cated a half an hour recording time. And that was quite often down the line… down a post office land line to Broadcasting House, to a recording channel there. They had to put the red light on and start recording, and there was no rolling back… you know it was… almost impossib[…]
[…]uld.SPEAKER: M2I'm I'm not. No I agree with you I think it has its place in history. I think it's recognised. I think they were all quite recently on Channel 4 for example.SPEAKER: M8Well I hope so because I think it should be recognised. Channel 4 is a marvellous channel for archive material.SPEAKE[…]
