[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…], the film laboratories or the BBC. So that was clearly a very important thing to do. In fact, a lady who turned out to be my mother-in-law, saw in a newspaper, a tiny little thing saying ‘Holiday Relief assistants needed at the BBC’: camera assistants. So I applied. DB: My memory is that the B[…]
[…]ss for me. They were magnificent, but they couldn’t let it be known theywere doing so, they were moonlighting. I had to engage an assistant out of thepathetic amount of money I did get out of the BFI: it just about paid for her,and she was magnificent as well.3 Hours 50 minutesCJ: Until the day[…]
[…]to read books properly, I used to go up to my bedroom to read. We had, like many families who had a radio where we heard the first ghastly news about war being declared, there was a big, heavy Bush radio on the floor in the dining room, where you had to have an appointment with the radio […]
