By Les Podraza. The first production I ever worked on was “Moonstone”. It was enormous, taking up the whole floor space of studio “A” at Pebble Mill. I was 19 and wet behind the ears! This brilliant place was to be my new home for over 25 years. Years that can only be described as [...]
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KEITH ACKRILL – MEMORIES OF PEBBLE MILL I worked at Pebble Mill on Radio 4 and television, from the day it opened until I left in 1982. I have very many pleasant recollections of the years I spent there. The thing you noticed most was the tremendous enthusiasm that permeated the whole staff. It was [...]
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Tagged as: All Creatures Great and Small. Juliet Bravo,Basil Brush,Bob Langley,folk music,Ginger Rogers,Howards Way,James Hunt,Kenny Ball,Midlands Radio Orchestra,Natalie Wood,Pebble Mill at One,Poldark,pop music,Radio 4,Robert Wagner,Saturday Night at the Mill,Studio A,The Archers,The Brothers,Top Gear | Posted in: Blog, Building, Factual, Memories, Network, Radio, Television, Transmission lists
NB: This song is not to be used in any commercial capacity. The Pebblemill.org site has kindly been given permission to include it, by Denis Sheppard’s family. THE PEBBLE MILLY POLKA As producer presenter of the mid afternoon show on Radio WM I had to seek out all sorts of people in the community who [...]
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The First Series Of ‘All Creatures’ Christopher Timothy, Peter Davison and Carol Drinkwater were with us all the time, since most of the storylines required them to be ready for their scenes all day. My main responsibility was Chris and Carol. How lucky was that? They soon became my dearest friends and keeping Chris’s period [...]
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‘NOW THE NEWS FROM YOUR REGION’ I wonder how many people remember the VHF regional radio news bulletins that used to go out at 6.55 and 7.55 am every weekday from Pebble Mill during the 70s.They were read mainly by John Hogarth and also by Christopher Stagg, David Stevens, Terry Coates and Guy Thomas, if my memory [...]
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