John Jeffrey

[…]rn equipment; before Humphries crumbled JJ offered these satellite labs to Rank who purchased them – they were handy for TV; Bill Lloyd; Roger Beck – Thames Television; JJ discusses the regional TV stations and personnel; ‘greasing palms’ for business; Stanley Kubrick used to send presents to Humphr[…]

Ena Baga

[…] you left Blackpool.EB: I came back to London, I’d given up my flat in Hamstell Hill, and my Mother in Law had got a little bungalow in Shepperton on Thames, and that’s where, when Jim was demobbed, that was the only home we had to go to. And it was there, I had a call from, I’ll think of his name i[…]

Marion Grierson (Taylor)

[…] to get back down without disaster. Another episode where I had the same thing happen was from shooting from the top of the building at the river, at Thames House and there was a parapet that I managed to walk along quite happily till I looked down as soon as I looked down I had to creep back pushin[…]

Peter T Handford

This copyright of this interview is vested in the BECTU History Project.Interviewer Bob AllenThis is an interview with Peter Handford, sound recordist, and it is taking place in his studio where most of the train records for which he is quite famous have been put together at his home. The date is th[…]

Maurice Leonard

[…]e editing and in colour.Anecdote about Ena Sharples of Coronation Street 1968. Tell us of journey from presentation assistant to producer? Boarded by Thames as promotion Scriptwriter and got job.Wrote for David Hamilton and Philip Elsmore TV announcers.Bob Tyrell ex ITN was This is Your Life Head an[…]
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