This site is to celebrate programme making at BBC Pebble Mill. There are video interviews, photographs and text about the programmes and the building. If you have photos, memories or other material, please contact us.

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January 27, 2012More spooky goings on at Pebble Mill – Kath Shuttleworth

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More spooky goings on at Pebble Mill - Kath Shuttleworth

                        There are many tales of spooky goings on at Pebble Mill. I too had a slightly unexplainable experience in Studio 3. Whilst staying late one evening to prep some SFX I was working in the cubicle and the lights on the studio floor [...]

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January 26, 2012Strange Events at Pebble Mill – blog by Peter Poole

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Strange Events at Pebble Mill - blog by Peter Poole

This event was told to me about Radio Studio 3. This was the drama studio made famous by ‘The Archers’. One morning when the studio door was unlocked it would not fully open. This was due to several chairs that had been pushed against the door from the inside. This door was the only entrance [...]

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January 25, 2012Sourcing Clothes for Presenters – Janice Rider

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Sourcing Clothes for Presenters - Janice Rider

Specially shot interview with costume designer Janice Rider, talking about sourcing clothes for television presenters. Janice mentions the challenges of finding a suitable outdoor jacket for wildlife cameraman and presenter, Simon King.

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January 24, 2012Pebble Mill at One outside broadcast – photos by John Burkill

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Pebble Mill at One outside broadcast - photos by John Burkill

Photos by Pebble Mill VT engineer and supervisor John Burkill, no reproduction without permission. These photos of a Pebble Mill at One outside broadcast from October 1981.

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January 23, 2012Nagra – photos by Ian Collins

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Nagra - photos by Ian Collins

Photos by Ian Collins, no reproduction without permission. Video editor Ian Collins took photos of various pieces of post-production technical kit before the fixtures and fittings of Pebble Mill were sold off in auction in Autumn 2004. These photos are of a Nagra audio recorder. They were used in the PSC (portable single camera) edit [...]

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