These photos show the VT area at Pebble Mill over the years. They were taken by different people in post production, including Mike Blore, Tim Savage, Jim Gregory, Paul Vanezis and Ian Collins, and show the changes in technology from the days of 2″, through 1″ to D3 and Digibeta. Copyright resides with the individual [...]
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‘Sikh Worship’ Not actually at PM but typical of the pioneering ideas coming from it. This was a live relay of Sikh worship from the Graham Street Gudwarah. Here can be seen Pete and engineer Stuart Miller preparing for the broadcast. Radio Birmingham was the first to transmit live non Christian worship in the UK [...]
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‘Maureen and the coffee’ One Christmas eve the BBC canteen had closed early for the holidays and we cheekily regretted the fact on air. This lady Maureen lived in one of the tower blocks nearby in Edgbaston and walked down to the studio with refreshments for we forgotten broadcasters! Pete Simpkin
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Photos by Willoughby Gullachsen and others, no reproduction without permission. The ‘Heart of the Country’ was a four part series by Fay Weldon set in Somerset which was broadcast in spring 1987. It was produced at Pebble Mill by Roger Gregory and directed by Brian Farnham and starred Jacqueline Tong as Sonia, a mother struggling [...]
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Tagged as: Bob Jacobs,brian farnham,chris reynolds,Christian Bale,dave doogood,Dave Evans,Fay Weldon,Heart of the Country,Jacqueline Tong,Pebble Mill,roger gregory,Willoughby Gullachsen | Posted in: Blog, Drama, Photos, Television, Transmission lists
Vote for Them 1989 (Photos from Bob Jacobs and Bev Dartnall, no reproduction without permission.) I co-authored Vote for Them, with David Edgar, although it took from 1981 to 1988 to bring it into production. The plays were conceived following a reading of an article by E.P.Thompson in the New Statesman in which he spoke [...]
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Tagged as: Billy Hartman,Carol Parks,David Edgar,David Rose,E.P.Thompson,Janice Rider,Leo Abse,Michael Wearing,Neil Grant,Pebble Mill,Steve McFadden | Posted in: Blog, Drama, Photos, Television, Transmission lists
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