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[…] Date: 1997-10-09 Interviewer: Alan Lawson Interviewee: John Turner JOHN TURNER, news cameraman Tape 1, Side 1 Alan Lawson: First, John, […]

[…] given a job to do for nine months, I did news clips, little three -minute items that were inserted into […]

[…]p;14:42  from that. So what was a was it a combination of music and talks, or it Elizabeth Bale  14:48  was mostly news articles, I think, because then they'd cut into the network, into radio, four or home services? It was then, but Nick Gilbey  14:5[…]

[…]the right place at the right time. I did French and Psychology at Strathclyde University which was quite an odd thing to do and I didn't get into the Newspaper and I wish that I had. People like Dougie Donnelly and people who were around Strathclyde at that time and I wasn't part of that crowd someh[…]

[…]ect - Interview No. 421[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: TBCInterview Date: 1997-10-09Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: John TurnerJOHN TURNER, news cameramanTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: First, John, when and where were you born?John Turner: I was born in Hampstead actually, yes, I'm a Londoner […]

[…], at this point, at the same point as that, the BBC decided to step up their Arabic service broadcasts because it was really important to get as much news across to the Arab world as possible, so they tripled the hours at the time when most of the staff had left.  So, it ended up with Lionel Ba[…]

[…]I went all the way back to Ireland and worked a week's notice. And he said, "What we're going to do, we're just going to have Sunday pictures and the newsreel during the week, with the variety. The job is yours as chief projectionist." So I came back, and that was the year before the war broke out. […]

[…]r of Programmes at the time, and he liked the idea so STV hired me as the Arts Correspondent, which meant I had to do stuff on Scotland Today, on the News programme so, although it was a bit disconcerting because John Toye, who presented it at that time, introduced me as the Darts Correspondent, whi[…]