[…]the er...Bob Allen: With the Vitaphone.Mickey Hickey: With the Vitaphone system. Not only the Vitaphone system but the sound-head they'd built on the universal base, with the projector sitting on top of the universal base, and of course the sound-head with the exciter and the peck were just a sound […]
[…]on in then it sometimes it worked terribly well. My thesis was that it shouldn't be special or anything like that. But it's something which is in the news and is newsworthy in its own right. But you just don't call it news. You just do something about it. And report on whatever's happening. You can […]
[…]ed. In the studio I was always conveying the works I loved. The actual ballets and the whole process of being a dancer.During my lifetime, dance as a universal human phenomenon has moved from being a not very respectable occupation to a really proper career. Dance people can have careers beyond danc[…]
[…]nt was slightly fragmented and she was current affairs bossDavid Attenborough: And there was this very doctrinaire thing that current affairs was not news, which still dogs the BBC, because current affairs could include comment, not editorialised but it could allow people to put opinion in and news […]
[…]he whole house and Fiona had gone up to the farm to whole up for the summer and save rent. And with this prospect of this show going on. Then the bad news, the phone call came from John Counsel when, they said sorry it's not on they've changed their minds. I immediately came back down again and I ha[…]
[…] was this very doctrinaire thing that current affairs was not news, which still dogs the BBC, because current affairs could […]
[…]the right place at the right time. I did French and Psychology at Strathclyde University which was quite an odd thing to do and I didn't get into the Newspaper and I wish that I had. People like Dougie Donnelly and people who were around Strathclyde at that time and I wasn't part of that crowd someh[…]
[…]so old that I remember the Second World War; I was, I think aged 7 when it broke out. My father at that time was working in South Wales, and he was a newspaper editor, well he wasn’t at that time but he was working in newspapers. And we were bombed – not our house, but we were blitzed in Cardiff, an[…]
