What Was Pebble Mill? – Page 32 – The stories from Pebble Mill, the BBC studios in the West Midlands

Pete Simpkin oral history

This is a specially recorded oral history interview with radio producer and presenter, Pete Simpkin, who worked on both Radio Birmingham and Radio WM at BBC Pebble Mill.

Radio Producer, Pete Simpkin.

Chris Phipps – Namedropper!

Chris Phipps’s autobiography, Namedropper, is available on Amazon priced at £9.99. It includes Chris’s memories of Pebble Mill.

Pope John Paul II, Souvenir Programme

Radio WM covered the visit to the Midlands of Pope John Paul II in 1982. Radio WM engineer, Rod Fawcett, worked on the radio programme from Coventry, and kept the souvenir programme safe since then.

Last Pebble Mill at One part 1

Here is the first part of the last ever episode of Pebble Mill at One. Thanks to Ben Seymour, son of presenter David Seymour, for posting the episode on YouTube.

The Archers studios – the Mailbox

These photos are from The Archers’ studio at BBC Birmingham. It’s interesting to see how many of the props and sound effects are still the same as at Pebble Mill, e.g. the doorbells and Jill Archer’s aga.