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[…]nbsp;sounds like I: The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Sir Paul Fox. One time Managing Director, BBC Television, Yorkshire Television. Interviewing Norman Swallow. Recorded on the 24th of March 1993. Side 1.Fir[…]
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[…] Western Railway at Paddington Station and ask to see the managing director. That's how you start. That became a great giggle. People […]
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And, wasn’t it, was it not, and I could be wrong about this, but James Archibald as managing director?
No. Not then. I think he came in later.
Came in later.
Yes.
Right. So who would it have been, who...
Because then, a[…]
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[…]le and then I'll feel better. And I'm very like that, but as I say I'm very basic, all my life at the BBC I never took it seriously. I mean to become managing director of BBC Television was beyond my wildest expectations. And when I got I used to stand there and I used to look at the building and I […]
[…]anotherday.Roy Fowler: What did the Department comprise and how did it operate, he was the headof the art departmentMaurice Carter: Vetch was the art director. There was a guy called because Gus Kochswho was his assistant who had come from the same direction as I had in decoration, Ithink he came fr[…]
[…]n the summer term the end of the summer term of 1940 when I was 16 I came home and my father had talked to the Chief Editor or whatever he was called Managing Editor of the Surrey Times Group, the Surrey Advertiser Group in Guildford and they had agreed to take me on as a trainee reporter. But they […]
