[…] was as a trainee script editor at the BBC in London on Play of the Month , a strand of […]
[…] put his socialist politics into practice. Sidney was a South London boy, clever enough to get a place at the […]
[…]at Denham offered old machines to the archive; engineer Phil Read started working at the archive as an engineer; 5 million feet a year, with a lab in London also printing 2-3million, during the 24 year project.00:30:00 – 00:41:20 PB set up at Denham; Black Pirate restoration – test using an optical […]
[…]er believed me. So I did. I passed my Intermediate the first time, the final proved more difficult as it often was. And I went on a crammer course in London. And eventually I got, I think on the second take. So I now was qualified, about 21 or 22. And now I had to do National Service because it's be[…]
[…]he recording rests with The BECTU History Project.Harry, mm, when were you born?Second of March 1925.And where?Sixty-seven Queensdown Road, Holloway, London, N7.And you went to school of course, and did you leave school at fourteen in those days or when?Yes, I left school at fourteen with no qualifi[…]