Photos by Martin Fenton, no reproduction without permission.
These photos were taken in 2003 at Pebble Mill, they show the radio spot effects store room. The room may look like a jumble of assorted domestic bits and pieces, but it was the source of the spot effects used in radio dramas, primarily The Archers.
Thanks to Martin Fenton for sharing the photographs.
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This is the floor managing team of the magazine show, Daytime Live, which replaced Pebble Mill at One in the late 1980s (featured are, left to right): Mike Johnston, Amanda Neal and Bryan Sharpe, as they had just finished an episode of the show. Debbie Hood may well have taken the photo.
Thanks to Mike Johnston for sharing the photo.
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In this video interview Tara Prem talks about writing the 1973, 30′ film, A Touch Of Eastern Promise. Script editor, Barry Hanson, also talks about how the film was made. The producer was David Rose, and Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the director. This single drama was the first film on British television with an entirely Asian cast. It tells the story of a young man, Mohan, who dreams about Bollywood films, and particularly a glamorous actress, who is coming to sing in Birmingham that evening. It is a film about dreams in contrast to reality, and explores what it means to live in immigrant communities in British cities in the 1970s.
A Touch of Eastern Promise
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Thanks to David Cassidy for sharing these stills.
This copy of the Borchester Echo is from 1970. It celebrates 20 years of The Archers. The magazine featured members of the production team, including David Cassidy’s mother, programme secretary, Lynne Grainger.
Photo from Tony Wadsworth, no reproduction without permission.
Area 5, was one of the studios used by Radio WM. The sign dates from after the 1999 studio refit.
Thanks to Tony Wadsworth for sharing this photo, and to Gareth Jones for adding the date.
The following comment was added on the Pebble Mill Facebook page:
Pete Simpkin: ‘Certainly were not there in my day although the ban was in force without the signs….l left in 1988. Wish they had been there as it would have avoided an altercation l had with the late Lord Lichfield who l had to stop from lighting up just before we began a live interview. I had to explain that if he did begin smoking l would have to delay the interview and play music whilst l asked higher authority to come to the studio to help me enforce the no smoking ban which was already in operation. The interview turned out to be of less duration than planned with short, terse answers and his Lordship getting up and noisily leaving the studio whilst l was attempting to go through the usual courtesy of thanking him for coming in to talk about his book of lovely photographs!’