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[…]ogrammes done properly. But I think that had a great deal to do with it, because nearly all the Recorded Programmes Department and the Programme Engineering Department, where they twiddled knobs, played records and so on, were nearly all ex- servicemen, but still relatively young, fortunately. […]

[…]to bring it about. It didn't matter whether it was ping pong or indeed the laws of thermodynamics, it was all there and all the financial advice, the engineering advise, the planning skills, they were all there and though BBC 2 had to be created de novo with its new studios and its own engineering s[…]

[…]was even worse cut off, and he asked the government if he could have a bridge across. And the government or the authorities said no... they'd have an engineer and the equipment to help build it, if he would volunteer a large quantities of his people to work on the building of a bridge you see, as co[…]

[…]le. So the 3 of us got on fine and we sat there and it looked very good.I had a problem obviously as managing director of DBS because the director of engineering believed this was going to be his knighthood. All directors of engineering got knighthoods for something. They get it for colour,' the int[…]

Margaret Thompson  0:11  The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT history project we're interviewing Francis Cockburn I spell the name C O C K B U R N, who started life in the film industry as an editor became a producer and finally information officer interviewer is Margaret […]

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