Pete Murray

[…]ame back to nothing.MIKE DICK:  Right.  So, what happened next?PETE MURRAY:  I got a job as assistant continuity announcer for the new ITV station, well, that had just come on … ATV at that time.  And Bob Danvers Walker was the official and, of course, he was a famous new reader […]

Jenny Barraclough

[…] really dislike the B.B.C. John Humphreyshad just done whatever it was he’d just done and she thought there was awful over manning,which there was in ITV.SRYes I’d forgotten, before you left the BBC you had a period… Your career seemed to change;you had a period making what could be called anti-esta[…]

Jean Kent

[…]nsborough daysJK: Yes, it was Queen Mary and she always had bouquets wound with tapeI: Now we’re into an area, oh I tell you what we ought to mention ITV had started commercial television. Also you had worked for BBC of course since after the warJK: Yes I did pantomime with themI: And various variet[…]

Betty Willingale

[…] a soap really because Coronation Street was trundling away being frightfully sort of successful and The BBC, if you remember for a long time, I mean ITV wiped the floor with BBC Drama didn’t they because with few exceptions BBC didn’t seem to get it right somehow, it took a long time for people…Wit[…]
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