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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Pebble Mill site 2020 Posted by Bhasker Solanki on Thursday, 9 January 2020 Thanks to Bhasker Solanki for sharing this video of the Pebble Mill site in Jan 2020. It looks very different from when it was a broadcast centre, with only the road past Security at the end of the video looking the same.
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Tagged as: Bhasker Solanki,Pebble Mil | Posted in: Blog, Building, Video, Video, Videos
This is a 1974 BBC1 screen-grab of one of the original Midlands Today journalists Geoffrey Green – reporting on how transplant surgeons removed a Birmingham man’s kidney not realising he was still alive. Green, who was from Coventry, did his first BBC broadcast on radio […]
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Tagged as: Andrew Hewkin,Colin Pierpoint,Conal O'Donnell,David Lowe,Geoffrey Green,Pete Smith,Peter Colbourne,Wendy Edwards | Posted in: Blog, Photos, Regional, Television
Thanks to Richard Smith for sharing this photo of the House Service Engineers, who had just set up the marquee for Regional Clubs Day. It’s circa 1983. From L to R: Dave Tansey, Mick Taylor, Dick Smith and Mick Archbold.
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Tagged as: Dave Tansey,Dick Smith,Mick Taylor,Micl Archbold,regional clubs day,Richard Smith | Posted in: Blog, Building, Memories, Photographs, Photos
Thanks to Jan Poston, for sharing this photo from the late 1990s, of her father working at the BBC Club at Pebble Mill. Ron was a true gentleman and is fondly remembered by BBC staff. He also worked as a studio attendant.
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Tagged as: Ron Poston | Posted in: Blog, Building, Memories, Photographs, Photos
Here is the record of the original Raymond Lefevre theme tune of Pebble Mill at One, courtesy of Andy Walters. It was released in 1978. It set him back £4.99!
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Tagged as: Andy Walters,Pebble Mill at One,Raymon Lefevre | Posted in: Blog, Factual, Television
