Philip was a producer who gave a voice to people who seldom appeared on television. His films had a similar style to the ‘Radio Ballads’ produced in Birmingham by Charles Parker. They mixed actuality with specially commissioned music to tell the life stories of people from all sections of society. Philip was a great interviewer [...]
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March 23, 2012Angels
Copyright resides with the original holders, no reproduction without permission. Thanks to Janice Rider for making the photos available. The polaroid photos were taken by costume designer Janice Rider, as continuity records of characters’ costumes. The publicity photos were probably taken by Willoughby Gullachsen (Gus). The group shot seated on the grass dates from 1983, [...]
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I recently watched ‘The Colony’ by documentary film maker, Philip Donnellan, and wrote down my thoughts on seeing it for the first time: ‘The Colony’, a documentary produced and directed by Philip Donnellan for the BBC in Birmingham, is now almost 50 years old. It shows the lives of black immigrants to Birmingham, through the [...]
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Photos by Tim Savage, no reproduction without permission. The photos are of an outside broadcast for ‘Pebble Mill at One’ in the Cotswolds. The first photo of Engineering Manager, John Endall and the horse was probably taken at David Nicholson’s racing yard at Condicote. The other photos are of a tractor which was in the [...]
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Thanks to Marie Phillips for making this available. This bone china tea cup was made to celebrate ‘The Morning on One’. It dates from the early 1990s, when BBC Pebble Mill ran the morning schedule on BBC 1. The presentation was run by Ross King, and Lydia Thomas, and linked the two big large live [...]
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Tagged as: Good Morning with Anne and Nick,Lydia Thomas,Marie Phillips,Morning on One,Pebble Mill,Ross King | Posted in: Blog, Factual, Photos, Television
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