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[…]until the next year,we wanted really to stock up in January, February, March and go on the Air at the end of March orbeginning of April that would be 1956.So I started recruiting key Personnel like Bernard Flood who took charge of Personnel Relations, hewas an MP at that time and Reg Hammonds the Ch[…]

[…]y was William Stratton. My father knew him, I think he'd been manager at HMV Recording Studios and he wasin charge of the contracts department at the BBC. He said they would very much like me to join the staff of the BBC. I asked what the job was and he said it's called assistant engineer. I said wh[…]

[…]r that one and it was the car I had in fact when Sally and I first got married. I might say I went down the scale after that, at one stage during the Suez Crisis I had a Ford Thames van. Roy Fowler  8:07  Don't you wish that you had that Jaguar SS though? Jonathan Balcon&nbs[…]

[…]r radar side, he was an absolute BrainBox. Very, very clever. And we both got demobbed more or less at the same time, I managed to get a job with the BBC. And Gordon went to work for Granada Television in Manchester, he lived in Manchester, so it was sort of natural, I suppose for him. So we both we[…]

[…]er Twist set where they were filming a scene in Fagin's kitchen with the young John Howard Davies as Oliver. Of course he is now a famed producer and director. I watched the shooting of Oliver Twist until about 3 and then we went over to The Red Shoes set. I saw Micky Powell running around. And I wa[…]

[…].I dont know quite what happened. Britain in 1956 was in a pretty dead condition. 1956 is the year I think, 1956 was the year of Hungary, the year of Suez which politically stirred things up. Also strangely enough it was the year of Free Cinema, it was the year of the English stage company at the Ro[…]

[…]o was head of documentaries I presume. So that was an independent production made for the BBC. So we did several like that                 &[…]

[…]ys said when he dies he will be known as Richard ‘The Knack’ Lester (laughs) so that was it  I did lots of commercials as well as working at the BBC.00:19:50It was recognised at that time - of course I was - I wasn’t BBC staff I was BBC contract - which was another thing that Frank Muir and Den[…]