[…]ly on the bus seat.Speaker 2 59:46 Right. So obviously investing heavily at this time, presumably in response to what was happening with ITV.Speaker 1 59:55 Oh, absolutely. Yes, yes, yes. So there was real competition going on. In fact, one of the problems the BBC were having[…]
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[…] people in line. Which. Was. In its infancy I was losing a lot of people because. The BBC was babies here and they had one channel in those days the ITV or something else. So they were they were news you know to people because ITV were. Probably seeing all sorts of things like holidays and. Car deci[…]
[…]they would book the dolly from us and say we’d like one of you grips Fred Fry if he’s available. Er ... the, and we used to service the Beeb and the ITV companies with complete, with equipment and crews, the reason that all fell away and it’s been a great disappointment to me, was that the Beeb part[…]
[…] another field altogether. Have you ever worked on film or tV commercials. Alan Lawson: I've worked on a film commercials […]
[…]er met in my life. The broadcast is well I prefer the broadcasters that's here. But I had a great problem trying to get in at that time. And all the ITV companies turned me down. But the BBC read through my thing and said Would I like to I then applied to the BBC to go in as the as the the man in ch[…]
INTERVIEW WITH PETER SARGENT, 8/5/2000PS: Peter Sargent; MS: Mike Sargent; DB: David BrownDB. What is your earliest memory, Peter? Where did you actually start?PS. I started in 1934, at Lime Grove, which of course has gone now, Lime Grove at Shepherd's Bush, and I started there. And the reason I sta[…]
[…] major star - came over to England to do a TV series. And I suppose I was quite proud of […]
[…]ision in London, so that would have been, really, Television Centre and Lime Grove, as they were, in White City. So, I was taken on and was posted to TV Centre and found myself in, what was then called, television recording department which nowadays we call post-production. That encompassed videotap[…]
[…]a first class ticket. Nothing like it is today, but nevertheless it was first class and I was in a carriage – and I always swore I’d write a play for tv and put this scene in, and sitting opposite me were three officers –McG: [interrupting] Hang on a moment there Harry because we are going to change[…]
