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This photo shows the editing of regional news in 1990. It looks like a rather makeshift edit suite.
This photograph was originally posted on the Pebble Mill Engineers’ Facebook page.
The following comments were left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Brian Charles: ‘Makeshift?!? That was state of the art kit at the time – Edit Suite 2 I think.
That’s Inge Samuels managing to get a smile out of Gary Hudson. Can’t have been a last minute lead story edit then!!’
Richard Uridge: ‘Notice the heavy tape boxes ready for Gary to throw at unsuspecting passersby.’
Diane Kemp: ‘Blimey it does look very last century. Definitely Gary though at PM’
Simon Calkin: ‘Three-machine Betacam suite with an Audio Designs mixer.’
Gary Hudson: ‘It’s not me. I sent my stunt double and the bastard smiled, ruining my public image (see comments above about the legendary bad temper). He was a little fey, as you can tell from the girly haircut, and I made sure we were never seen in the same room together, partly to maintain the mystique but also because his immaculate dress sense and devastating good looks were an embarrassing distraction from my position as the only competent journalist in the newsroom at the time. He usually did the posy stuff – PTCs, cutaway questions and the like -while I got on with the proper job. This picture appeared in the book that was given free to staff when Pebble Mill closed – obviously as a tribute to those who were soon to embrace obscurity. Inge was brilliant though, as was Brian Charles, despite his cheeky comment above.’