Peter Williams

[…]sonally treasure most is being a Freeman of the City in which I live, Freeman of the City of Canterbury, which followed the MBE I got for services to television and the arts. And the City recognised that as well. And I think there’s possibly no greater honour than being recognised by the people with[…]

Anne Hanford

British Entertainment History Project Interview No. 710 Interviewee: Anne Hanford, formerly Head of Television Library Services at    the BBCInterviewer: Sue MaldenTranscriber:  Linda Hall-Shaw SUE MALDEN:  Thank you very much for talking to us Anne.ANNE HANFORD:  […]

Peter T Handford

[…]here. It was really an undertaking. I wish I could remember the title of the film but it was Michael Redgrave and Sally Grey I think. It was shown on television fairly recently. He sees what he thinks is a murder being committed. He sees it from an underground train.M Was it an Agatha Christie story[…]

Rudolph (Rudi) Cartier

Copyright is vested in the BECTU History ProjectCORRECTED VERSIONRudi Cartier, television producer, interviewer Norman Swallow, recorded on 22nd January 1991[By the time of this recording Rudi Cartier's hearing was badly impaired and as a consequence he was reading questions from a pre-prepared ques[…]

Michael Darlow transcript

[…] there. So work came pretty continuously. My first job in television: the late great Desmond Davies, he of the award, […]

Sandy Ross

[…]became the West of Scotland University. But when I was at university I shared a flat with a guy called Steve Morrison who only ever wanted to work in television and another one of my friends at university, oddly enough, was Paul Caladay who also only ever wanted to work in television so I was around[…]

Louise Willcox

[…]ale colleagues doing? Oh, Joanna and Jackie, were both going on to be engineer Well, Joanna actually was going to become the first sound assistant to Television Centre. She was six foot and a half engineer bare feet blonde bombshell. Sadly, I discover she only lasted about two years, I think she cou[…]

Derek Williams

[…]ake refuge in education, and to make it films for Sixth Form type audiences and to distribute them on video. And so, in a sense, my career began with television being a very low quality and regarded by film makers and film technicians as something of a joke and not worth not worth working in. And en[…]

Michael Aldridge

[…]r loader.Michael Aldridge  2:02  The industry then, the film industry that was, became very difficult in the early '60s and I joined Anglia Television, where I spent nearly a year at Norwich on a contract. That contract ran out and I joined the BBC in 1962 as a holiday relief cameraman - a[…]

Bill Ward

[…]t.com.Bill Ward Side 1 Alan Lawson  0:00  The copyright of this recording is vested in the Bectu History Project, Bill Ward, television technician since 1936 director, producer, programme executive, interviewer, Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson recorded on the 21st of January[…]
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