[…]joined the BBC as a technical assistant – so, trainee engineer. And, at the time, all I knew was that they were recruiting for posts in television in London, so that would have been, really, Television Centre and Lime Grove, as they were, in White City. So, I was taken on and was posted to TV Centre[…]
[…]n Yentob, and we talked with veteran rich and eventually agreed to do it. And we made the film andUnknown Speaker  12:34  then they tend to London, the Bolshoi, and we wanted to round it off in London somehow, and there was a very charismatic and extremely delightful dancer called erect Ma[…]
[…], Christine.Right, well. Well strictly speaking, I was born in Potters Bar but moved fairly swiftly down to Winchmore Hill, Palmers Green area, north London and the date was 1941 and I went to all the local schools and so forth and then progressed to what was called thenSouthgate County Grammar Scho[…]
[…]er became shortly after that the first school medical officer that Sheffield had. Then we moved and lived there until 1914, when we came and lived in London 'cause my father went to the Ministry of Education as a Medical Officer. I was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School, in Aldenham, aft[…]
[…]ut unfortunately - here we go again with unions and people’s attitudes - up in Yorkshire the shop said, 'We don’t give a bugger what the shop says in London. There’s no way you’ll show a film on this station made by Yorkshire with London people.' And so I was head of a company which couldn’t ma[…]
[…][laughter] Yes. And then of course because of the broadcasting, the success of it, whether he applied or was asked I don’t know, but we moved to London from Coventry when he became Musical Director for the BBC Variety Orchestra.How long were you in Coventry?DS: I can’t remember. I think it[…]
[…]olin Moffat. Side One. First of all really the basic question, when and where were you born? Cyril Pennington-Richards: I was born in South London in 1911, December 17th 1911...I almost made Edward V11 but not quite! [AL laughs] I think I've been under five monarchs, it would have made six[…]
[…]n room watching the proceedings and the Katie Katie 12 projectors were showing the film many years later, when, when I was working in the West End of London, I went into Frank brockless One Afternoon to pick up a piece of equipment. And we, I was talking to the guy in there, and he came up with this[…]
[…]lm titles are in bold textUnknown words have been highlighted in yellow Side 1So can you tell us where and when you were born?Yes, I was born in London in Maida Vale on the 12th February 1929.Can you give us a bit of your sort of early educational background?I think my very first school was a c[…]
