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History

[…] 1986, a group of workers in the British film and television industry set about collecting and archiving the oral testimonies […]

About Our Collection

[…] had contributed to the growth and success of Britain’s film, theatre, television and radio industries. With approximately 700 interviews recorded to date and […]

Stanley Watkins

[…]icity job for about a year before I retired, we made, we took photographs and displayed them on a on a screen, on a screen, on a screen, sort of like television screen. And we had a little talk with them, you see. And that was done on a steel loop. And we had that, but I didn't use much in magnetic&[…]

Brian Marshall

[…] released prints. You had to pay a tax what? Yeah, I'm not sure what the taxes were. It's not a tax in effect. It's a cost. I can't think of the word royal That's it. That's it, you had to pay a royalty on all Prince. Anyway. Anyways, I was there I learned quite obviously quite a lot. I used to run […]

Rebecca O\'Brien

[…]f idyllic childhood, etc.Speaker 1  11:09  Well, it wasn't that idyllic. It changed somewhat when my mother, when my mother ended up at the Royal Edinburgh hospital, and, you know, suddenly the world started to fall apart, and my parents split up and basically left. My father left, and so […]

David Elstein

[…]sp;    I came back, worked at Home Service as Current Affairs Producer on ‘Focus’ with Edgar Lustgarden. Then I was told time to go to Television Centre. It was a comedown intellectually from Bush House to Broadcasting House. BH was fantastic, empire created by Lawrence Gilliam, brill[…]
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