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 video demonstrates how the line-up for studio and outside broadcast cameras worked. It was produced as part of Royal Holloway, University of London’s, ADAPT project, using the restored outside broadcast truck CMCR9, Pebble Mill’s original CM1. The ADAPT project recreates how now defunct television production processes worked, and is run by Professor John Ellis. […]
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Here are a couple of script pages from an outside broadcast of the quiz show Top of the Form, mixed at Gosta Green in 1964. The show started as a radio quiz in 1948, and finished in 1986, with the television version running between 1962-1976. Thanks to Malcolm Hickman for finding and sharing the scripts. […]
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Tagged as: Boswell Taylor,Geoffrey Stone,Gosta Green,Innes Lloyd,Joan Clark,Malcolm Hickman,Pete Simpkin,Sheila Davies,telerecording,Top of the Form | Posted in: Blog, Factual, Photos, Television
This clapper board was for the last ever episode of All Creatures Great and Small, the Christmas Special, which Steve Saunderson lit and shot on S16mm film on the Panavision panaflex camera. Save Save Save
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Tagged as: All Creatures Great and Small,Panavision panaflex,Steve Saunderson | Posted in: Blog, Drama, Photos, Television
Actor, Robert Hardy, who played Siegfried (centre in the photo above) in All Creatures Great and Small’ died 3rd August 2017, he was 91. Hardy was born in Cheltenham in October 1925. He gained a BA from Oxford in English Literature, after being […]
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Tagged as: All Creatures Great and Small,Andy Tylee,John Evans,Keith Brook,Robert Hardy,Robin Sunderland,Siegfried Farnon,Steve Weddle | Posted in: Blog, Drama, Photos, Television
Pebble Mill at One producer, Steve Weddle, gives the inside story […]
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Tagged as: Claire Chambers,Ellie Lacey,Helen O'Rahilly,Michael Smith,Paul Coia,Pebble Mill at One,Steve Weddle,Sue Westwood | Posted in: Blog, Factual, Photos, Television
