FM Steve Pierson mimes Curtis Steiger
AFM Debbie Hood in the audience seating area
Peter Poole and Andy Morton sorting out sound
Wilf Welch, cameraman, walks through shot
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These grabs are taken from a rehearsal of the lunchtime studio entertainment show, Pebble Mill, which went out from Studio A from 1991-6. The rehearsal was recorded by Paul Vanezis.
Thanks to Laura McNeill for taking the grabs and sharing them.
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The sheet above shows the expenses rates, from 1997, which staff were able to claim for different engine sizes of cars or motorbikes. If you weren’t insured for business use of your own car you were able to claim the public transport rate of 20.1p a mile.
Thanks to Peter Poole for sharing the expenses rates document.
The following comment was left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Carl Dolan: ‘Yes the rate is currently 25p and 45p so it has gone up by 2p since 1997!’
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The photo shows film editor John Bland, with dubbing mixer Dave Baumber in the background. It would have been taken around 1980.
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The Bike’s the Star was a four part series which went out in January and February 2001, repeated in the Autumn. The series was produced by the motoring unit. It was presented by Steve Berry, with Dave Smith, and Dennis Jarvis as the producer/directors. The series looked at different classic motorbikes, including the Harley-Davidson, the Italian Vespa Scooter, the BMW Boxer, and the Triumph Bonneville.
Thanks to Ian Collins for making the title grab available.
The following comment was left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Peter Poole: ‘Anyone remember Top Gear on radio 5? I think Steve Berry presented. The other presenter was Zog Zeigler.’
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This little red book contained the BBC Safety Regulations for Engineering staff.
Thanks to Peter Poole for sharing his copy of the book.
The following comments were left on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Pete Simpkin: ‘Somewhere I have the big green folder containing among other things the correct balance and control settings for audio levels…. Obviously no longer issued!!’
Stuart Gandy: ‘I still have one of these too somewhere. Funnily enough I am at Wood Norton this week almost 35 years to the day that I started my BBC career there, where I was presented with the little red book!’
Alan Jessop: ‘Still got mine in the loft, you used to get a pack of new pages now and again with updated regs, you we’re suppose to replace updated pages and chuck the old ones!’
Malcolm Hickman: ‘Mine went west years ago, but I do have my Comms Data Sheets’
Ray Lee: ‘I think I’ve still got mine somewhere!’