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This titles grab from A Touch of Love dates from 1993. A Touch of Love was a strand within Good Morning with Anne and Nick, the BBC1 Daytime magazine show. It went out at 11.40 each morning, with a romantic story being completed over the course of the week. The strand proved pretty popular with the viewers.
Thanks to Ian Collins for making the grab available.
Photo copyright Robin Vanags, 1992. No reproduction without permission.
Here are Robin Vanags recollections of visiting Pebble Mill in 1992, around the time that the 21st anniversary of the building was being celebrated:
‘Those of us visiting BBC Pebble Mill from ‘Voice of the Listener & Viewer’ in November 1992 were guided by a gentleman who had worked for the BBC in Birmingham from before the centre was built & who recalled masses of cabling, visible in large apertures in the floors, before the studios opened in 1971.
In addition to the network & local radio facilities, we visited a very smart BBC Midlands Today set, in television studio B, and, after a live broadcast of Pebble Mill (no longer ‘at One’) from television studio A (where the new Sony cameras were in action), we toured studio A’s 3 control rooms (production, lighting & sound) which appeared to me, as sophisticated & impressive as those I’d seen at BBC Television Centre in London. Good Morning with Anne and Nick occupied the foyer – previously home to Pebble Mill At One.’
Robin Vanags
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This titles grab is from the daily magazine show, Good Morning with Anne and Nick, which ran on BBC1 from 1992-6. The show was scheduled to compete with This Morning on ITV. It was presented by Anne Diamond and Nick Owen.
Here is the Radio Times entry from one of the early episodes from October 12 1992, courtesy of the BBC Genome project:
Anne Diamond and Nick Owen welcome you to a new week of chat. fact, tips, fun, daily horoscopes and star guests.
10.50 Beauty Spot with Liz Simpson
11.00 News (Txt) and weather
11.10 Library of Romance
11.20 Star Guest of the Day
11.30 Consumer Action with Will Hanrahan
11.35 Medical Phone-in with Dr Mark Porter
1 1.50 Travel Spot with Carol Smillie
12.00 News (Txt) and weather
Editor Mike Hollingsworth
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/650fac97edd84607b638b8e3dcd3c32e
Thanks to Ian Collins for making the grab available.
Photo by Ben Peissel, no reproduction without permission
This a list of factual television programmes, described as ‘current’, was produced before the closure of Pebble Mill, around 2004. The list is included in a document housed in the BBC Archives in Caversham.
BBC One:
Points of View, Animal Sanctuary
BBC Two:
Gardeners’ World, Gardeners’ World Specials, Gardeners’ World Live, RHS Tatton, Gardener of the Year, Small Town Gardens, Rachel’s Country Garden [I don’t think this series was actually made], Million Pound Property Challenge, SAS Survival Secrets, Big Dreams – The Secrets of Asian Success, How I made My Property Millions
BBC Three:
The Brief: India and Pakistan, Greatest Eunuch Show, Black Beauty
BBC One Daytime:
Countryfile, Call My Bluff, To Buy or Not to Buy, Trading Up, Big Strong Boys, Sunday Garden, Trading Up in the Sun
The following comments were left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Caroline Feldon Parsons: ‘I worked on 10 of those programmes! And don’t forget all the Radio programmes that were also being currently made …’
Simon Vaughan: ‘Pebble Mill was an amazing production centre – why on earth decommission it and pull it down, such an absolute waste. Just like TVC, their like will never be seen again.’
Carole Lowe: ‘Miss Pebble Mill a great building I worked on Anne and Nick and other programmes. Sad loss to BIRMINGHAM.’
Stuart Gandy: ‘Proper broadcasting centre.’
Pete Simpkin: ‘..and of course all the Radio…Live music , recorded music, Radio 2, Radio 3, amazing amount of Radio 4 ….drama, features, documentaries, the Archers and all the Local Radio as well!’
Judith Markall: ‘A sin to knock the building down!’
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This is a photo of me, Vanessa Jackson, taken for the Pebble Mill Press Office, circa 1992. It was taken when I was a producer on Good Morning with Anne and Nick. I worked with Alex Fraser at the time on the VT inserts, and we commissioned Independent production companies to make the pre-recorded strands which went out on the magazine show.
Production co-ordinator, Gail Herbert gave me the photo, which she found in the basement of Pebble Mill, when the building was cleared prior to being demolished in 2004/5.
The following comments were left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Alexandra Fraser: ‘Wow feels like yesterday and this gorgeous photo brings it all back!’
Jane Mclean: ‘Don’t look any different! Not sure what to say about it being found in the basement!’
Ruth Kiosses: ‘I’ll have you know all the very best people were in the basement at Pebble Mill!!!’
Steve Johnson: ‘I worked on Good Morning with Anne and Nick at the last series, looking after the ‘hotliner’ students.’