Photos by Lynda Kettle, no reproduction without permission. Lynda Kettle was a Production Designer at BBC Pebble Mill, working on factual, entertainment and drama shows in studio and on location. The photos were taken as records of the Sets.
Pebble Mill became a important centre for Black and Asian programme making, including several Asian Magazine series which contained music and dance inserts, whose sets are shown in these photos. These sets were built in Studio A, and was probably date from the mid 1980s. Music and Dance days were staged in Studio A with a number of items recorded and stock piled for later use in one of the Asian Magazine Series: New Life/Asian Magazine/Gharbar.
Production Designer, Lynda Kettle also worked as a theatre designer and an artist, and now runs courses from her art studio http://www.lynda-kettle.com. She is a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham Water Colour Society. Midland Pastel Society and Birmingham Art Circle . She exhibits her paintings several times a year at selected galleries.
Lynda Kettle