E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]this one with Binnie Barnes, we had two cameras all the way through on that, yes.Roy Fowler: So that account to some extent then for the sort of television quiz show lighting [laughs] that one gets!E.M. Smedley-Aston: Well yes because if you've got an actress who is, as I say, needing quit[…]

Barbara (Bimbi) Harris

[…]d transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Barbara Harris was interviewed by Roy Fowler with John Hamilton on 30 August 1989. 1. Early television cameras and vision mixersRF: Was the next thing into television?BH: Yes, into television. Television started in 1946 and I with a lot of th[…]

Reg Sutton

[…] people?Reg Sutton: The relationship was very good. I mean, we had a man at Newcastle, a producer called Cecil McGibbon who eventually became head of television for a time until he died in bed, because he was a great smoker and he caught fire to himself. And Cecil McGibbon I used to do most of his p[…]

Reg Sutton

[…] a producer called Cecil McGibbon who eventually became head of television for a time until he died in bed, because […]

Ken Westbury

[…]my name is Ken Westbury, and I was born on the fifth of January 1927. And my place of birth was Woodley Shepherds Bush, just a few 100 yards from the Television Centre, which wasn't there in those days.Unknown Speaker  0:20  You English,Unknown Speaker  0:20  I'm English as youSp[…]

Gawn Grainger

[…]take them all. DB: So we’ve established that you were 12 at the time. GG: [agrees] 12, 13 something like that. So that was all prior to the television, yeah. And that television happened and then one television led to another, actually. DB: That was of course BBC, because there weren’[…]

Lew Grade

[…]hat I would like to suggest is, could you in your own words, and not too extensively, talk about the beginning. The beginning of where ...Lew Grade : Television.Alan Sapper : ...you started from. Well, no, before television; your life performing.Lew Grade : My life.Alan Sapper : Your life, yes. But […]

Ronald Neame

[…]g in it. I hadn't seen the picture for years and years and years and years. But they still do run it Roy Fowler  1:08:01  on television in recent times. I've seen it within rare collectible memory. It's a fascinating piece, a couple of things. At some stage, we must talk abo[…]
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