Johnny Goodman

[…] Sydney Samuelson’s film logistics firm ‘Sam Freight’. Goodman moved into television as an executive producer in the late 1960s and […]

HP0190 David Attenborough – Transcript

[…] copyright is vested in the BECTU History Project. David Attenborough, television director, producer. Interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded 8 April 1991 […]

Mat Irvine

[…]aken. So I did that. And actually interesting enough the first time I the first job I did within effects was I'd moved from Alexandra Palace, down to Television Centre because news had moved. And the first thing Jack did was sent me back to Alexandra Palace, which was easier to get to because I live[…]

Alistair Murray Moffat

[…] on the phone. She was so in tuned to speech patterns that she could hear you smiling if she said something funny. So we made the film and it won the Royal Television Society Best Documentary and it was in the same year that Bill Brown, wonderful Bill Brown who was really the soul of the Company in […]

Roger Bernard Newbold Smither

[…]fficial historians for the strategic bombing offensive, and the book that resulted from that was fairly controversial and he was then at either RUSI [Royal United Services Institute] or Chatham House, you need to fact-check that [in fact Chatham House DS] – and, again, was not totally happy there so[…]

Pete Murray

[…]iend of my Mother’s when we were living in …we had a pub in Bayswater by this time and she was one of her customers and her daughter was going to the Royal Academy and she said “You know, Peter loves acting, do you think he could … why doesn’t he go to the RADA and try to get in to the RADA.”  […]

Thomas Michael Bond

[…]nd. I was given the option to tell you taking a retirement or going anywhere else in the BBC that I wanted and in fact I had been wanting to get into television for a long time because I was very interested in photography. But I wasn't allowed to transfer because they took the view that. If they cha[…]

John Shearman

[…]e didn't do anything very much with sick we did commentary, wild effects and that kind of thing. I didn't learn cuts, think until, until I was in the Royal Air Force.Unknown Speaker  4:11  What actually did you do in in this, in this film unit, and yourself? Pretty well, everything. I wrot[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]ng.Q I was terrifically impressed when you told me, very much later, after you retired from the ACT, and you got a job with the - I should know - the Royal Commission ...A Well, I told the Royal Commission everything.Q I know you did and they were happy to have you.A Absolutely, they didn’t tur[…]
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