Videos – Page 9 – What Was Pebble Mill?

Steph Silk talks about Pebble Mill at One

Steph Silk talks about working on Pebble Mill at One from pebblemill on Vimeo.

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Video interview with Steph Silk talking about working on the lunchtime live magazine show, Pebble Mill at One in the 1970s. Steph worked on the series firstly as a researcher, then as an assistant producer, and later as a producer. By the end of Steph’s long career in television she was the Managing Editor of Daytime Television.

Brian Vaughton talks about working with Charles Parker

Working with radio producer, Charles Parker from pebblemill on Vimeo.

In this video, freelance radio producer and editor, Brian Vaughton, talks about working with radio producer, Charles Parker, on some of the Birmingham Ballads, including Cry from the Cut, about the canal folk of Birmingham and the surrounding areas.

Brian is interviewed by Sam Coley, Degree Leader Radio, School of Media, Birmingham City University.

Brian Vaughton demonstrates the Brenell editing deck

Brain Vaughton demonstrates the Brenell tape editing deck from pebblemill on Vimeo.

Radio producer and editor, Brian Vaughton, demonstrates the Brenell tape editing deck, which would have been used to edit radio documentaries and inserts from the 1960s.

Brian worked as a freelancer at BBC Birmingham in the 1960s, with producers like Philip Donnellan and Charles Parker.

The following comment was left on the Pebble Mill Facebook Page:

Peter Poole: ‘I used Brenell decks in hospital radio. Very good machines and built like a tank!’

Brian Vaughton demonstrates the EMI L2

Brian Vaughton demos the EMI L2 from pebblemill on Vimeo.

This specially recorded video with retired freelance radio editor and producer, Brian Vaughton, shows how the EMI L2 tape recorder worked. Brian bought the tape recorder in the late 1950s, and it is still in good working order today.

A radio colleague from Birmingham City University, Sam Coley, and I, travelled down to Devon in late July, to interview Brian Vaughton about his radio work for BBC Birmingham, in the pre-Pebble Mill days.

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Jenny Brewer talks about her BBC career

Jenny Brewer talks about her career at BBC Pebble Mill from pebblemill on Vimeo.

Specially recorded interview with Jenny Brewer talking about her career at the BBC. Jenny began working as a secretary in the late 1960s, and ended up as a commissioning manager in the late 1990s. Much of Jenny’s production work was in the English Regions Drama Department, headed up by David Rose in the 1970s.

The following comments were left on the the Pebble Mill Facebook Page:

Jean Palmer: ‘I worked for Jenny when she was a commissioning manager up in the posh offices in the fifth floor.’

Gordon Astley: ‘..I think I remember Jenny in the BBC Club’s production of “A Funny Thing Happened……” I had just joined the BBC !!!’

Judith Markall: ‘I remember Jenny and she mentions Eric Holmes! I was his Secretary and I couldn’t have worked for a nice man!!!!!! Much remembered.’