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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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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Tagged as: Kath Shuttleworth,Kathryn Shuttleworth,Late Night Currie,Pebble Mill,Studio 3 | Posted in: Blog, Building, Factual, Memories, Television, Transmission lists
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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Tagged as: Brian Telford,dubbing,Peter Poole,Radio Studio 3,The Archers | Posted in: Blog, Building, Memories, Network, Radio
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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Tagged as: Janice Rider,John King,Simon King | Posted in: Blog, Factual, Television, Videos
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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Tagged as: Donny Mcleod,Jane Mclean.,John Burkill,Keith Froggatt,Pebble Mill,Pebble Mill at One | Posted in: Blog, Factual, Photos, Television, Transmission lists
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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Tagged as: All Creatures Great and Small,Chalkface,Dave Baumber,Film Unit,Ian Collins,Murray Clarke,nagra,Paul Vanezis,Pebble Mill,Pete Simpkin,Peter Poole,Post Production,Radio Birmingham,Specials | Posted in: Blog, Building, Photographs, Photos