Photos by Ben Peissell, no reproduction without permission.
These photos are of Dubbing Theatre 3 at BBC Pebble Mill.
Ben Peissell was one of the dubbing mixers at Pebble Mill, who worked across a range of programmes in different dubbing theatres.
Dub 3
Photos by Willoughby Gullachsen, no reproduction without permission.
‘Boogie Outlaws’ was a 3 part drama about a recording company owner, Manfred Holt, who forms a band from a group of musicians who are on the run from the police. It was produced by Carol Parks at Pebble Mill, directed by Keith Godman and written by Leslie Stewart. It was transmitted in 1987.
The drama starred Ian Hogg, David Schofield, Isla Blair, John Judd, Francesca Brill, Sara Crowe, Claire Parker and Chris Tummings.
Photos by Lynda Kettle no reproduction without permission. Lynda Kettle was a Production Designer at BBC Pebble Mill, working on factual, entertainment and drama shows in studio and on location. The photos were taken as records of the Sets.
‘Why Did The Chicken?’ was an animal quiz show for children presented by TV vet Mark Evans. The contestants had to answer questions about farm animals and won eggs rather than points. The show ended with an egg hunt against the clock in the shape of a chicken. There were two series, the first started going out 6/4/1994, with the second series starting exactly a year later in April 1995. It was recorded in Studio A at Pebble Mill. The series was produced by Jane Tarleton and the executive producer was Judy Whitfield.
Production Designer, Lynda Kettle also worked as a theatre designer and an artist, and now runs courses from her art studio http://www.lynda-kettle.com. She is a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham Water Colour Society. Midland Pastel Society and Birmingham Art Circle . She exhibits her paintings several times a year at selected galleries.
Photos by Ben Peissell and Tim Savage, no reproduction without permission.
The lower photo shows VT Editor, Leigh Sinclair in CM2.
CM2 was an outside broadcast truck based at BBC Pebble Mill. It normally had two cameras controlled from it, and was used to record programmes like ‘Gardeners’ World’, before portable single cameras became the norm in the mid 1980s.
Mike Bloore was a VT editor who worked on CM2:
‘There was no edit controller on CM2’s VTR’s. There was only a button to start both machines at the same time and trust to luck! On ‘Gardeners World’ we often did “roll back and mix” which involved playing back the last shot of the previously recorded sequence through the vision mixer allowing the vision mixer(the person) to mix through to the live camera of the next sequence to be shot while recording the whole event on the other VTR. This enabled mixes on location to be possible with only 2 VTR’s. Then someone invented pre-read but thats another story!’
Mike Bloore
Lorraine Chase at Pebble Mill
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I’m not sure which programme this still of actress Lorraine Chase is from – probably ‘Pebble Mill at One’, but please add a comment if you can identify it. She was presumably wafted here from Luton Airport!
Thanks to Gail Herbert for making the photo available.
