[…]ed at what went on behind the scenes! The cameras, the sound, everything indeed was incredible! From that moment on I used to get tickets for all the STV shows sent. I used to write in. We got them for nothing, of course, and went quite often to watch programmes being either recorded or going out li[…]
[…]me and there was a guy who had been there longer than me, knew more about it so he got the job! However, before another job came up, a job came up at STV in telecine so I applied for that and when I told John Byres, who I had spoken to earlier on in the process, he kind of kept an eye on me all the […]
[…]for the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's Oral History project. The interviewer is Janet McBain, the date is 14th July 2018 and the place is the STV's studio in Glasgow. The copyright of this recording is vested in the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group. We will start at the very beginning. Y[…]
[…] because I actually failed my course at university and, funny enough, failed graduates were what were perceived to be the head of Sound Department at STV's idea of the right kind of person to put in the team because graduates, at a functional level, graduates always wanted to move on. They always wa[…]
[…]w for the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's oral history project. The interviewer is Janet McBain, the date is 14 July 2018 and the place is the STV's studio in Glasgow and the copyright of the recording is vested in the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group. I am going to do the boring thing an[…]
[…]mily have a television interest? R: No. But television was in its infancy! This would be about, I think we first got a television about 1958/59. STV had been on the go for a year or two years at that time. And I remember we got the television and, gosh, we didn't have an outside aerial. It was […]
Russell Galbraith [Start of Recording] [00:00]I: ...interviewing Russell Galbraith and we are in STV for the Scottish History Project. First of all we talk a bit about the background. So, where were you born and then how you became interested in media and where you came from there? If I ca[…]
[…]for the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's Oral History Project. The interviewer is Janet McBain, the date is 14th July 2018 and the place is the STV studios in Glasgow and the copyright of this recording is vested in the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group. Agnes, thank you very much for comin[…]
John Frame [Start of Recording] [00:00]I: This is John Frame. I'm Tim Amyes. This is the 20th May [2017] and he was employed with STV between 1964... R: 1964 till 1992. In September. 17th. It's OK. I: So, John, where were you born? R: I was born in a lovely little village ca[…]
[…] get into Scottish Television? R: I think you would have said by pure chance! And just by luck, in a way, because I came to Scotland in 1952 and STV started in 1957 and I can remember arriving in Paisley to do a show with Jack Milroy and I originally came to work with Jack Milroy for five weeks[…]
