Kaleidoscope Honours The History Project

Representatives from the History Project and BECTU welcome Kaleidoscope’s recognition of the project’s work. Celebrating the achievements of the History […]

NEWS & VIEWS

This section provides information on current News, Articles of interest from non-members, as well as from our own Members. For information on […]

About our Collection

[…] had contributed to the growth and success of Britain’s film, theatre, television and radio industries. With over 800 interviews recorded to date […]

Interview

[…]ey did. And then whilst doing that, I applied to the union, AC T. And they were very busy at that time, because I was starting off all the commercial television. And I got an interview with this man. I suddenly got telegram and he said, meet me in Santo pub in Wardour Street. I thought funny. Anyway[…]

Barry Quinton

[…]ple Fortune in 1968 because by then the Company decided to put live shows on so we did a lot of live shows. We were predominantly live shows and television work with the BBC because at that time the BBC were converting their studios to colour, so a lot of the entertainment shows were put out to[…]

Mary Orrom

[…]t a great deal of time looking at it. A quite strange effect that when some years later, the Dalai Lama, in fact, came to Britain, and he appeared on television. I had, and then speaking with Michael, he had the same conviction that we knew him, it was quite strange, we'd say "that's not quite right[…]

Christine Whittaker

[…]y French a bit. I had a brilliant time at Bush House. It was the most interesting place that you could imagine in those days. After a year I moved to television as a trainee PA, which was all very exciting.I started off on 24 Hours which was great fun. I met all sorts of interesting people, obviousl[…]
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