This site is to celebrate programme making at BBC Pebble Mill.
There are video interviews, photographs and text about the programmes and the building.
If you have photos, memories or other material, please contact us.
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This photo shows Radio WM engineer, Rod Fawcett, during coverage of the Birmingham Superprix. Notice the backpack for transmitting the radio signal. The Superprix was a motor race meeting, held on the streets of Birmingham, between 1986-1990. Save Save Save
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Tagged as: Radio WM,Rod Fawcett,Superprix | Posted in: Blog, Local, Photos, Radio
This photo shows Gary Williams, from Graphics, hard at work. Gary was excellent at Astons. The photo is probably from the 1990s. Gary thinks that it was taken in the old News graphics room, when it was round in the main Graphics area. The computer looks like an Abekas A50, or something similar. The photo […]
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Tagged as: aston,Gary Williams,graphics | Posted in: Blog, Photos, Television
This photo shows the News VT library at Pebble Mill in the late 1990s. The VT library would have catalogued and housed tapes of stock shots and continuing news stories for Midlands Today. Thanks to Steve Johnson for sharing it. Steve moved from working […]
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Tagged as: Midlands Today,News VT Library,Steve Johnson | Posted in: Blog, Building, Photographs, Photos, Regional, Television
Tagged as: Alan Duxbury,Andy Frizzell,Andy Morton,Feasts for a Fiver,Lynda Maher,Micci Bamford,Micci Billinger,Sara Kozak,Sarah Kozak,Sophie Grigson,Sue Watson | Posted in: Blog, Factual, Photos, Television
This is the front page of a free leaflet available to listeners, to accompany ‘Relax with Roundabout’ – yoga on the radio, an innovation by BBC Birmingham producer/presenter, Pete Simpkin, and featuring […]
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Tagged as: David Shute,Light Programme,Pat Mellor,Pete Simpkim,Peter Duncan,Radio Birmingham,Yoga | Posted in: Blog, Local, Photos, Radio
