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[…]ade this decision to leave the company. After about five months, I started shopping around and this was in the summer of 1962, I saw an advert in the newspaper for a BBC film department at Ealing was taking on temporary staff for the editing department. So I ran the number to find out what it was al[…]
[…] said, Well, what can what would you like to do? And I said, Well, I love films. I come in here a lot, and they said, Well, would you like to run the news reel between the Playhouse and the central cinema on a Saturday afternoon? And of course, I jumped at it and the sum total of it was that I got s[…]
[…]C 24 hours in the life of the BBC. Right from the start, Midnight's and Dr. Thread through the day. Excerpts from various programmes so from talks to News to variety programmes, finishing up with experimental after they closed the main station down on Got a range of colour film. So that that was why[…]
[…] down every so on, not every night, obviously, but every so often when I could find the time, go down and watch the rehearsals for the, then, nightly News programme called Scotland Today and I used to sit in the studio and watch the cameras and, eventually, when I got to know the camera crew really […]
[…]ack and to compress the whole story into some brevity, Arthur Montford was hired on that day as the Sports Broadcaster, Jack Webster was hired as the Newscaster and I was hired as the Station Announcer and I was told to go and see Mr Thomson. Now, Mr Thomson was the man that owned it all and I had h[…]
[…] job alright!" [04:04]So that was me out of a job basically speaking. And a writer called Jimmy McNairn, who you probably remember, John, in the News Department. He used to write certain material for Jack, along with his partner, and he came to me and said, "Look, STV are looking for somebody t[…]
[…]by Bill Tennent, terribly popular. The BBC decided that it had to do something similar and its first go was a programme, in those days of course, the news was only ten minutes long at six o' clock and so this programme started at ten past six and it was called Six Ten. It ran, I think, for twenty mi[…]
