Category Archives: Stories

Clive Leighton – his working life

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Bernard Newnham

PREFACE. Once upon a time I read somewhere that if you start a story “Once upon a time” it has to have a happy ending. I’ve no idea if this is true and as I haven’t written this story yet I have … Continue reading →

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Richard Chamberlain

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Bernard Newnham

In late 2011 John Henshall mentioned  a tape he had stashed away to the producers of Tales of TV Centre (BBC 2012) – and caused a sensation. The story is told here on BBC News  and you can see the … Continue reading →

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One picture, lots of stories…

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Bernard Newnham

Here’s a picture taken on That Was The Week That Was, probably in 1963 – Robin Sutherland found it on the Museum of the Broadcast Television Camera website, and it turns out to have been taken by cameraman Michael Barrett. … Continue reading →

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EastEnders begins – a write up by Dave Howell

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Bernard Newnham

Dave Howell was one of the first people to work on EastEnders, as one of the two Gram Ops This is a reprint of an article that appeared in “The Walford Gazette” in November 2004, (twenty years after the start … Continue reading →

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Stories 6

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Bernard Newnham

Diaries by Bernard Newnham All cameramen keep diaries, because it’s the only way they know when they are working in a very irregular lifestyle. I stopped being a cameraman in 1977 – 25 years ago as I write – but … Continue reading →

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Stories 5

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Bernard Newnham

A few memories of Riverside Studios by Peter Ward I was hoping that recent trawls for missing BBC programmes would unearth 35mm copies of ‘Troubleshooters’, the BBC drama series about the oil industry. In the mid-sixties I took part in … Continue reading →

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