Larry Allen

[…] to Birmingham and I got another connection to Coventry, and outside the station was me other Uncle, Albert, in an […]

Bernard Ponsonby

[…]k, it went out at, I think, ten o' clock on a Sunday night and we used to take the programme to a different location every week, for example, the STV Outside Broadcast Unit was the first vehicle across the Skye Bridge because we did a Scottish Voices OB from Skye with the late Charles Kennedy and th[…]

Moira Armstrong

[…]tart Channel Two, BBC2?Yes.And you?I applied for one of the traineeships I suppose because it was open to members of staff as well as people from the outside. Like for instance, you know, Ken Loach was on the course before me and various other people, Gareth Davies was another one. And, and you had […]

Larry Allen

[…], Mam." So she put a brown paper parcel under me arm and saw me off on a train. And I got to Birmingham and I got another connection to Coventry, and outside the station was me other Uncle, Albert, in an old T-Ford - I thought it was marvellous! [Chuckling.] To get into an old T-Ford, you know, and […]

Teddy Darvas

[…]g called Programmes as Broadcast. And every day you had to fill this out any time you went on the air, who read the news, what records you used, what outside people you had, how long etc. etc. and all payments were based on PSBs. So Mr Lovejoy came in and said 'I haven't had your PSBs'. So I said 'W[…]

Kenneth Allan Patrick Coyle

[…]I mean, in terms of ownership and so on because, I mean, it's like, I think I am right in saying that STV, having swallowed Grampian, is the only one outside of the ITV networks because Ulster is now part of the ITV, isn't it? R: I believe it might be. I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer that […]

Simon Rose

[…]the steps, I could see the blue haze at the bottom, I was just walking down into the into the diesel fumes that had sort of sunk down from the street outside into this basement so it's not there's not a healthy environment. Another downside was that we used to quite often at that time get power cuts[…]

Joe Mendoza

[…]ooks fairly like Iceland. Semi mountainous and bloody and muddy. And we did all this stuff with the Hudson's you know, based in England at East Kurtz outside Grimsby it was an operational unit. And you know, it was really it was really the war who knew he was there with an operation unit and they'd […]

John Frame

[…]lar strand of television. We all did everything that was coming along. I'm trying to think of the worst programme I ever did. It would probably be an outside broadcast. I can't remember the year but it was the Pope's visit to Murrayfield. And it was great. It wasn't because it was an outside broadca[…]
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