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Roy Parkinson: BECTU Interview Part 1The copyright of this recording and transcript is vested in the BECTU History Project. Roy Parkinson was interviewed by Sid Cole in 1987.1. On his father H.B. ParkinsonRP: I was born in Surbiton, 22nd January 1916, and my father at that time was a cinema manager.[…]
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[…] - no dates. And we were able to sell, well in an uncontested market we were able to bring huge amounts of money into the door selling airtime so the management of it was given the means to be inefficient about how we did things and to be able to agree to stuff that we couldn't now because we were s[…]
[…]elpful chat with me over the phone. And who said, Well, I better tell you, even though you may have quite a lot of experience as an editor, they, the management don't really like to take on outsiders, they like to have been trained from scratch, here on the premises. But they take on a lot of freela[…]
[…]ng money and that didn't necessarily mean you were a nice person. And certainly then chase wasn't particularly and. But Lou protected us from the top management rarely, occasionally, he'd say to me, Simon, you know, you better not take quite such long lunch hours. You know, they've noticed it in fro[…]
[…]t me read er Agriculture, which I wanted to do because I said I had no scientific subjects. What they didn't tell me was I could have taken an Estate Management course. Instead I tried to read Modern Languages my first year and hated it and I read English my second year and hated it and came down af[…]
[…]t, where we sent We arranged for one of the doctors from the home office to go down and have a look around there, she kicked up merry hell with management and issued orders that extraction fans and various alterations had to be made to the room in which the work was done. As you all know, sinc[…]
[…]the BBC and quite understand,” and I think quite secretly he wouldn’t be sorry to see the back of me. So, he put it to the Board of Management and the Board of Governors and they said yes, and he wrote to me and said, “You’ll be very pleased to know that although, albeit with reluc[…]
